Originally Posted by
rydabent
I have seen and touched a couple of Wright Bros steel bikes. they are now around 120 years old. Put a set of tires on it and off you would go. Do you honestly think that you could do that in 120 years with a CF bike built today. I say it would be so brittle it would shatter in a thousand pieces when someone tried to get on.
I offer this analogy. I help friends work on old cars. The plastic electrical plug are extremely brittle and prone to breakage. Remember the lions part of the weight in a CF bike is plastic.
99,99% of 120 year old steel bikes can’t be ridden, either.
My experience with cars is that rusted steel does them in before brittle plastic does.
And how many of those old plastic parts you speak of are modern CF?
You are mistaking a gut feeling for a reasoned argument, here.