If you were to build the same, sport-touring frame and fork (we can take the Roadeo as a well known to all example of the design I mean) with similar clearances, similar "braze-ons", and with similar long-term durability, out of top quality steel and out of carbon fiber, how much weight would you save with the carbon fiber?
I'm not concerned in this discussion with the catastrophic fail rate of CF versus steel; I'm interested in a CF frameset that under the same normal use as the Roadeo would last as long as the Roadeo. Nor am I concerned about building into the steel frameset any extra measure of safety; just your typical top quality steel sport-tourer type of frame. That is to say: no stupid light gauge or design on either frameset, nor any scrupulous over building. I know that you can buy a CF racing frame that weighs less than 2 lb in a small size, but I want to compare a carbon fiber frame and fork that are as durable and have as much clearance as their steel counterparts. Use whatever strength-to-weight tweaking tricks you can; just have the CF frameset be as long-term-reliable as the steel one made from top quality tubing. Again, how much weight difference? So much of our discussions about CF versus steel seem to be comparing apples to kumkwats. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
