Originally Posted by
GhostRider62
I did not read the references. If carbon fibre lasts on fighter jets, F1 cars, and commercial aircraft over my lifespan, in effect it does not fatigue. The resin? That is a more nuanced discussion. But I have a 30 year old fork hanging in the garage in the sun and it is still holding up.
A bigger issue is probably the extreme light and brittle layups being used where even the bike rack clamp on your car will damage the toptube permanently.
Well, I'll be turning 40 next year, so by the time I finally hang up the wheels, I hope the current commercial aircraft and fighter jets will be binned old junk. They do go through inspections and so on and so forth, and the QC is miles ahead of bicycle manufacturing. It's the forks with manufacturing defects which are fairly short lived.