make me sound like an idiot
Well...yes. Yes, you do.
I just remembered...you are the Luddite that actually believes Simple Green dissolves bike chains! It just dawned on me that you have some very, very strange beliefs with zero facts to back them up. You remind me more and more of Alf...the loon than actually put it out there that he thought it entirely possible to ride an UltraTorque crankset with a 1 MM "air gap" between the half shafts.
I get it now.
Air gaps...Simple Green voodoo...thin steel that can be magically repaired by Ongo Bongo in the jungles of Swaziland, but not by certified welders that refuse to touch the stuff. And carbon can not be repaired at all despite Calfee and and few dozen other folks doing just that. Including the guy in the video that said he repairs 50% of the wheels sent to him. Wild stuff there, huh?
Wheels! Carbon wheels that can be made safely rideable again in a matter of an hour's time! Maybe the next batch of overloaded tourons can manage to find room for a 50-gram pair of epoxy tubes and a few pieces of carbon or fiberglass cloth? Nah! Too busy picking out their lug set and the fifteenth bag to strap to their rig.
Gotcha!
You live in a fantasy land of geriatric postulates that remain unproven myth, backed up by internet lore from people going by the handle of "RetroGrouch". For real.
How many carbon bikes have you owned? How many miles have you put on them? I would love to hear all about your near death experiences.
While you prep for recounting how many carbon frames have failed under your massive Watt output, please look at this beautiful Stork Multiroad touring bike...rack mounts molded in and loaded with touron features galore.
https://www.racycles.com/road/storc...sku=10053236&gclid=CO3Cwu2n4M8CFQ8waQodtVgHAg
You do know about Stork? Them Germans...they make good stuff. And among the many touring bike builders that manufacture in carbon fiber they are right up there. But, you knew that. AmIright?
A flat bar, a triple crank, touron wheels, 37 MM tires. Perfect for a month riding the Australian Outback or running from Mexican drug cartels.
Even Calfee has an excellent carbon bike that will take a metric **** ton of abuse from wild gravel racing to randonneuring to touring.
http://calfeedesign.com/adventure/
I know you freak at the price of a Lot Lizard, so I won't tell you to get your checkbook out, but you could take a gander at Calfee's bamboo frame. I hear tell those are easily repair by ninja's if you're touring the forests at the base of Mt. Fuji Finest.