The next carbon fad...
 

Exposed carbon weave is played out.

I bet the next style fad in cycling will be....... "natural" carbon.

Red and DA7900 shifters... Tarmac frames... Reynolds wheels....

Just predicting... two years from now we'll all be groaning "enough already".

Carbon clothes.

My underground sources say steel and carbon frames. A match made in heaven...

Carbon chamois...

ouch.

Good taste catches on.
http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/b...c_0011comp.jpg

I've never liked carbon weave layers which are purely there for aesthetics.

sweet sweet carbon fibre clothing... that's as good as wearing asbestos and glass fibre

white CF

Matching your bike color to your eyes?

I am surprised that they haven't introduced a dye/pigment into the resin

+1 thats been around in hockey sticks for like 2 years now.

http://www.westwoodsports.com/prodimg/16503345.jpg

don't you already get frames with steel and carbon?

Laterally stiff, yet vertically compliant! :thumb:

like this monstrosity?

http://www.bikelandusa.com/images/bi...06_luna_sm.jpg

I thought they used glass-fibre top layer over the carbon to get the 'white' carbon.

I'd wondered about that.
But yes, brief research suggests Texallium, aluminum coated glass. Used as top layer. But then, I read about hexagonal Boron nitride fibres, being referred to as white carbon fibre.
Anybody know which is used in bikes?

Too late, my bike is already made of nude T800 unidirectional carbon :)

Don't do this to PCad, his business hasn't been going to well and if something new appears and he can't buy it, well, I really don't want to think of what might happen... :eek:

they have. My 04 Pinarello Prince was burnt orange carbon. looked sweet in the sunlight.

I actually saw one of these in person a few years back...it was pretty cool the way the sun reflected off the carbon. However I'm not a fan of bianchi bikes in general.

CF "mood" frames....they change color with your mood.

Carbon spoke nipples, carbon waterbottles, carbon eyeglasses, carbon grips, carbon saddlebags, carbon cables and housing, helmets with a full carbon shell, and especially carbon tires-rubber is so last century.

To be serious, I think the next advancements in frames and components will come from the use of composites besides carbon. Carbon fiber is only one branch of the composites family and other composite types will be found to perform better than carbon for some applications.

Its been done.

http://www.deftracing.com/carbon_fib...hood_red_2.jpg

http://www.deftracing.com/carbon_fib...da_s2000_2.jpg

http://www.deftracing.com/carbon_fib...hi_3000gt5.jpg

http://www.deftracing.com/carbon_fib..._orangecf3.jpg

Modulus Guitars (formerly Modulus Graphite) used to -- or, for all I know, still does -- make a carbon pattern that served the same purpose as exposed weave (i.e., none, save for aesthetics) only it was completely random, rather than that boring predictable repeating pattern of traditional weave. They call it KLD (acronym for "Thousand Ladies Dancing") and you can see it on the neck of this bass guitar:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2352/...43059bec_b.jpg

I think that would look hawt for a bike frame!

Lemond already did that. It didn't catch on.

I think carbon will be done soon. Someone will invent a new super material soon.