ugh is right! Yikes! But who let's their parts get that far corroded? Honestly, anything will fail without proper maintenance. As to carbon bars, I'm sure that there are many on the market that are fine. But it's one of those items that gets churned out by questionable manufacturers at cheap prices so that people can have their "carbon". This introduces far too much risk for me. And to get a proper carbon bar from a proper dealer, like Profile Design, is very expensive. Aluminum bars have been great for far less cabbage.