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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: DC / Maryland suburbs
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Bikes: Homebuilt tourer/commuter, modified-beyond-recognition 1990 Trek 1100, reasonably stock 2002-ish Gary Fisher Hoo Koo E Koo
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Carbon fiber is very high-zoot. If your bike isn't sufficiently high-zoot, it's practically impossible to enjoy riding it.
But seriously... I don't really get the point of carbon everything except for saving a small amount of weight. I have ridden with a carbon fork though and it has a nice feel to it, as well as being much lighter than a steel fork (about 600-700 grams lighter than my steel fork I'd say!). Carbon forks often have aluminum fork ends and aluminum steer tubes, but not always.