>>1198188Hell, you tap a rock the wrong way with a carbon frame and there goes the frame. I don't get people who have carbon MTBs. Carbon is okay for road racing bikes, although it still fails way too often for my taste to be used in anything aside from competition where you hopefully have a sponsorship, but MTBs are under so much stress and take bad hits so often that I feel like you'd have to be nutso to use it.
>>1198093Depends on the 3rd world country. With some of them, good fucking luck finding a welding torch and decent shit to weld with unless you're in a larger city, and even then you sometimes have to talk to a lot of people who can find you the right person who can guide you to the temple of the fire god's wand that makes two pieces of metal into one. But that's why you go to developing countries, for the adventure!
>>1198053Dassi makes a graphene/carbon frame. The top layer is carbon, but the core is graphene. Weighs about 750g, stiff as fuck if the reports are to be believed. It's mainly being sold to finance their work, as they say they're aiming for 350g.
