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Building carbon fibre part compared to aluminum is a challenge. It is easy to cast, machine and weld aluminum and it had great property as it is lightweight, firm and flexible. Meanwhile carbon fibre is the future and motogp bikes will completely be made out of it as we are seeing right now manufacturers adding mre and more parts replacing aluminum. Difference is that designing carbon fibre part and then manufacturing it is a huge challenge because rigidity and flexibility depends on the structure and fibres direction. Producing such part takes a lot of time and there is a lot of waste. Price of such bike would be over the moon that nobody would be able to buy it. Using such parts on road bikes currently don't make sense because R&D to just produce such part is very expensive while it does not make a huge difference that someone would notice on a production bike. In motogp there are such small differences in tyres and bike parts that if any amateur rider would ride and try to compare difference could never tell that they are riding something different. Top riders use some new parts that they can (sometimes not) feel difference and in the best scenario eventually be 2-3 seconds faster over the race distance which is hardly noticable but in such competitive class makes the difference.

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