Originally Posted by
Kimmo
There can easily be more manual labour involved in a carbon frameset than a metal one, and there's almost certainly far more work gone into the design.
And if you were to take an open mold Chinese carbon frameset of today back in time to 1992, you'd be killed for it.
Link to sources on this? How many Pro's are riding around on hand built carbon frames in the peloton?
They are all riding cookie cutter molded frames from Asia.