>>1683728I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Carbon Fibre,
is in fact, Plastic/Carbon Fibre, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Plastic plus Carbon Fibre.
Carbon Fibre is not a framebuilding material unto itself, but rather another component
of a fully functioning Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic system made useful by the Plastic polymer epoxies, irregular bottom bracket shells, and vital Chinese slaves manufacturing a full bicycle frameset as defined by the UCI.
Many cyclists ride a modified version of the Plastic system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Plastic which is widely used today is often called "Carbon Fibre", and many of its riders are
not aware that it is basically Plastic, developed by the Glue Project.
There really is Carbon Fibre, and these people are riding it, but it is just a part of the bicycle they ride. Carbon Fibre is the base material: the part in the system that provides the structure of the frameset and possibly other components of the bicycle that you ride. Carbon Fibre is an essential part of the frameset, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete Plastic/Carbon Fibre layup. Carbon Fibre is normally used in combination with the plastic polymer epoxy: the whole system is basically Plastic with Carbon Fibre added, or Plastic/Carbon Fibre. All the so-called "Carbon Fibre" framesets are really framesets made of Plastic/Carbon Fibre.
