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Definitely not claiming carbon will overtake aluminum as the majority material
for bike manufacturing.
With the exception of truly niche companies (like Nicolai making everything in
house) it is my experience that custom metal is decreasingly made of metal.
It will be easy enough to check back in a few seasons and see what small
companies (aside from niche manufacturers like Nicolai who make everything in
house) do in terms of materials.
My prediction is that you will be equally disappointed with the Knolly's,
Banshee's, Intense's, Niner's, and SantaCruz's of the world as their new, high
performance, frame designs follow the same path as Yeti.
Oct. 16, 2014, 2:54 a.m. - DrewM
#!markdown Definitely not claiming carbon will overtake aluminum as the majority material for bike manufacturing. With the exception of truly niche companies (like Nicolai making everything in house) it is my experience that custom metal is decreasingly made of metal. It will be easy enough to check back in a few seasons and see what small companies (aside from niche manufacturers like Nicolai who make everything in house) do in terms of materials. My prediction is that you will be equally disappointed with the Knolly's, Banshee's, Intense's, Niner's, and SantaCruz's of the world as their new, high performance, frame designs follow the same path as Yeti.