Originally Posted by tanhalt

I said "nearly"...but, think of it this way...which would you rather have to replace after crashing out and ruining it in a crit, a $1300 list Soloist Team (now called an S1), or a $4500 carbon wonderbike like a Cervelo S3??

It also seems to me that the carbon frames are more likely to suffer a "catastrophic" failure due to crash damage than an aluminum frame. I've gone down a couple of times on my Aluminum Soloist and it's no worse for the wear...I've seen much less serious crashes than mine completely destroy a carbon frame.

YMMV