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Raw carbon saddle.

Morons.

Just paint the hood. The raw weave hood look is getting payed out anyhow.

This thread has not done a damn thing to hurt anybody. If you don't like it you can leave my thread which apparently doesn't interest you. If you don't want to see anymore of my posts add me to your ignor list like the other chap just did. Can a mod please clean up my post and get rid of the...

It's all about performance for me. That's why I run enkei rpf1s. I don't give a s*** if the strengthening lip makes my rim look an inch smaller, I want the performance it provides. If they started making cheaper well fitting lighter hoods from straight black carbon with no fancy weave look I...

I believe it's a DT Swiss special racing edition of some kind. The whole fork is carbon including the arch attached to the lower sliders.

Are you speaking of this sort of thing?

It's my guess we are going to trend twords the non weave carbon from now on.

From my information I am getting it seems that the "weave layer" is just a thin top layer and is more for show than anything.

Source?

Correct. But to the mass public people might not have known about that hence my post.

Here is an example of a part that is using both the weave pattern carbon and non weave pattern carbon for a good comparison and contrast. This is a bicycle seatpost and that top piece you see the is solid carbon. While the post portion keeps the traditional surface weave pattern we have become...

Carbon fiber, the material that makes expensive hoods that don't line up right. We all thought this stuf was all about the weave patern with the typical two color black and darkgrey scheme. Well now it comes to light that carbon doesn't have to be woven at all and is probably more effective...