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Old 03-12-07 | 11:22 AM
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Bikes: CoMo Speedster 2003, Trek 5200, CAAD 9, Fred 2004

Fatigue from worst to best: aluminum, steel, titanium, carbon/epoxy. Carbon parts have to be painted, or clear coated with a clearcoat that absorbs UV, because epoxy does degrade from UV exposure, and could degrade from exposure to nasty stuff in the atmosphere, like pollutants produced by a race car. Ferrari presumably doesn't paint their carbon undercarriage parts.
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