Originally Posted by
cyclintom
Its easy to say that now after carbon fi
ber has matured and most people know how to make a reliable product. I'm the one taking anti-seizure medication for the rest of my life because a carbon fiber bike fell apart and my friend is the one with a missing finger because his fell apart at 5 mph when 2 minutes later he would have been doing 40 mph down into Sausalito with heavy traffic.
I worked at Bicycle Odyssey in Sausalito for nearly 10 years. We lost a very good friend/customer because the aluminum bar on his commute bike broke coming down Alexander in Sausalito. He ignored the bike for years and the bar had a ton of corrosion. IMO if he'd have had a carbon bar on that bike he'd still be alive today. It definitely goes both ways.