On Jan 5, 5:35*am, Tºm Shermªn™ °_° ""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
$southslope.net" wrote:
On 1/4/2011 8:49 AM, SMS aka Steven M. Scharf wrote:

[...]
Understandably, the whole marketing push for carbon fiber bicycles
carefully avoids calling the tubing material by its real name, or
acronym, carbon fiber reinforced plastic, or CFRP. No one wants to use
the P word.

Scharf should know that CFRP stands for Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer.
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"Plastic" refers to unrecoverable deformation.

Yeah, like shatters.

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