Cheaper Carbon bikes

Well the blog was left for dead for a while, I am going to give it a little life support and see if we can get some life back in it. 

The last few years we see a growing number of customers ask about cheaper carbon bikes, I would normally say sure we got a 105 level bike for around 2500, and they would come back with so-and-so has a bike for 1800.  My normal answer to that is you would rather have a very good aluminum bike then a very bad carbon bike, and nothing has changed.
The industry is going to build what you ask for, there are companies offering bikes as low as 1500, how do they get carbon so cheap, well its cheaply made that is the answer.  Some very nice bikes have been showing up in the 2300 price range, and bianchi has come out with the vertigo at 2000 for this year.  We are excited to get this on the floor as it is a very well made bike at a price we before could not offer. 
So my point is this look at what you are really getting carbon does not always mean better, and often is worse.  Carbon is great in the right hands for the right usuage, but if the customer demands cheap carbon they will make it, we just try not to deal with that kind of stuff ourselves, but often someone is not going to be looking out for you, and who is going to tell you there stuff is crap.  Well they wont.