Outside Magazine And Crack-O-Matic Carbon Fiber Bicycles

You don't say.  Really.  Okay.

What maybe we should be asking is whether carbon bikes that have been raced on the road or raced or ridden hard off road should never be purchased used.  Steel, ti, and for the most part aluminium bikes can be judged and inspected if you're thinking about a used one, but perhaps plastic carbon bikes are only things to be bought new.  The very short frame warranties for the original owner on carbon bikes from most bike companies versus the ubiquity of lifetime warranties on steel, titanium and aluminium frames would seem to be well worth considering.  Can you imagine buying a used carbon road bike which had been raced hard for the past two seasons?  Or a carbon Process 153 or carbon Slayer or carbon Patrol ridden in parks and on the roughest trails for an entire year or two?  Me neither.