Mettle and carbon

[Marcus]

I thought Lister might like this story:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tuft-te ... time-trial

[Lister Farrar]

I hope you didn't mean carbon gives you more chances to show your mettle, but I suppose it does.

Anyone else notice that some roubaix bikes have steel derailleur hangers,

Trek is experimenting with hardened steel derailleur hangers on team bikes to gain a little extra shifting performance and better durability in crashes.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/pho ... ers/166471

alu stems and bars, and the sram teams use steel caged front derailleurs instead of the stock lighter ones?

'Guess Svein didn't get the memo.

PS I have a few steel hangers, but they're attached to frames..