Originally Posted by
motopokep
I can agree with that. Please see above, I was looking at $1,000 CF bikes from China. I don't want to spend thousands. At my budget, I think I'm safer with aluminum. Now, high quality CF bikes, that I'm sure is another story. Appreciate the response.
In terms of reliability I would take a $1000 Chinese carbon bike over a $400 aluminum bike every time. The chances are that the aluminum bike would have been made in China as well and would have much inferior, less reliable, heavier components which would result in that 10 pound weight difference that were talking about