HELP - I've Become A Carbon Junkie!!!!

Mark Elvin

During the build of the commuter/mtb bike I found myself buying too many carbon parts.

I'd buy a nice alloy seatpost, only to find the lure of carbon to strong & found myself buying a carbon one, before I'd even riden the bike,

The same story continued for the handlebars, stem & forks.

Now, I needed a bottle cage for holding the bottle whilst on the turbo trainer, a cheapo Hellfrauds jobbie would have done, but I find myself HAVING to have a carbon fibre one.

Lord knows how I'm going to cope when I give in & build a rodie.

il_principe

Carbon is addictive. I'd sterr well clear of Carbon Bars/Stem on a commuter though. If they get dinged you're looking a replacing them immediately, whereas Alu will prob be ok (ime) although BassJ's managed to break Alu bars IIRC...

greg66_tri_v2.0

You can pick up some pretty good Record look-a-like carbon cages on ebay usually.

Mark Elvin

I'll be fine (hopefully). I tend to give all my gear the kid glove treatment to be honest. Any damage & a part gets replaced and the damaged part goes in the spare parts bin.

bigmat

Can't see much point in carbon on a commuter, unless you need to shed weight for serious hills maybe. Its nice to have though so if you like it, go for it, just be prepared to cry (and pay) when it gets wrecked. I've stacked my commuter a couple of times and would have been in for new bars and bottle cage at least had I been on my carbon roadie, whereas I was able to just pick my commuter bike up off the floor, brush it down and carry on!