Originally Posted by sced

"Not entirely correct................"

Pardon my patheticness, but in Road Bike Action (July/August, pg. 60) Fausto Pinarello says, "Our development team consists of the rider, me, the bio mechanical expert and the engineer....and today we just can't make carbon fiber bicycles here in Italy. No one can really make carbon fiber here...Pinarello has a special agreement with Toray, the Japanese textile giant, that we exclusively use Toray carbon fiber fabric.....We couldn't possibly make carbon fiber bicycles here in Italy; you need 100 people, there is a lot of industrial equipment and know how, not to mention the toxic materls that are used. In the far east they have the infrastructure and material that comes from Japan".