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Carbon fiber
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Carbon filaments bonded together with a resin, in a technology similar to fibreglass. The resulting composite material is very strong in the direction that the fibers run in. Carbon fiber is available in the form of tubing with a woven/braided weave, which can be glued into lugs to build more-or-less conventional frames. A more sophisticated approach is to lay up the carbon fiber cloth in a specific shape, in a mould the shape of the finished bicycle. This allows the orientation of the fibers to provide strength in the direction of the actual stress. Carbon fiber technology shows great promise, but there have been reliability problems with many early models.
