Originally Posted by
kbarch
Regardless of whether there's any real risk or difference in serviceability, this is why I'd like my next CF frame to be assembled from tubes. Visited the Casati workshop last May and saw what they worked with - beautiful materials, meticulously assembled. A finished bike from such a workshop is like a Brioni suit compared to the pair of sweats that some CF bikes are.
Interesting take. Did you see tubes and lugs cut open to show how consistently they were laid up, compressed and cured? Did you see a finished frame cut open to show how uniformly the tubes were bonded to the lugs?