Originally Posted by LarrySellerz

Recently “upgraded” to a full carbon fancy $3k bike, have to say the biggest changes are that I feel more upset at mechanical problems because of the cost of the bike, and am more paranoid about sudden catastrophic failures (had a carbon seatpost snap before.)

is it faster? Sure, but not by much, and I don’t like riding at the limit of my fitness on it because I don’t fully trust carbon yet, so it’s not even really faster except on climbs