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Are you sure that the fender is genuine carbon fibre? There are a lot of "carbon look" plastic motorcycle components for sale on the internet. The price is a good indicator as it isn't a cheap process making carbon fibre bodywork. I paid £1300 for a full set of genuine carbon fibre bodywork for my 2009 XR1200.
The front fender below is the one that I purchased, before and after installation, it cost me £177.50.
Looks like a dipped fender to me vs a real carbon fiber. Real CF has a multi-line 3D type pattern, your example is a single line with no depth or 3D look.
carbon fiber is great in some apps, BUT, not all apps.
it is strong and yet brittle for lack of a better word. they are prone to stress cracking and thus need special attention.
a case in point: msa came out with a carbon fiber steel guitar cabinet. at the steel guitar convention they put one out on the floor with a dial indicator on it and told people to stand on the cabinet and low and behold, the deflection was zero at least with that indicator. BUT?!?: months down the road, the cabinets were cracking and what little stress is there but string tension. steel player want ZERO cabinet deflection because in they minds it is a purist point that the note will always stay on pitch or frequency. THE REAL WORLD: i doubt seriously many if at all could hear it, could only see it on a o-scope or frequency monitor. besides that, deflection is what sometimes defines the sound between diff guitars.
HUMMMMM!! no cause of alarm for me since i play distortion and shoot i might not be even in tune.
another company started making round hole acoustics in lafayette, la but later to be fumbled when the bodies fail.
but on the flip side: helicopter blades are sometimes made of it and the ole german helicopter the bocal was an anti-tank platform that could hover in tree cover popup fire a missile and back into tree cover. i once saw a video where they put a carbon blade on a test sled and run it up into a 4" post which it snapped in two and no damage. sorta reminds me of the wood blade bell g model that came in with holes all over the blades.