Ok maybe not, BUT i'd been having a hard time finding a frame in my budget that fit me after a recent professional bike fit. The fitter put a stem on my bike with a crazy amount of rise and short reach. This looked bad, so I researched aerobar risers for my Vision pads and came up with nothing more than 24mm (I needed almost double that for a horizontal stem). I found some 50mm spacers from Zipp and found the bolt positions strategically did not match up with my vision hole placement, so out came the carbon fiber. I dremeled out material on the spacers where the new bolts would go, made a mold, and essentially made an outer skin of carbon. All of the weight and clamping force is still on the spacers where it would be originally so i'm pretty happy with the result.
While I was at it (and my real reason for posting), I did a bit of carbon detailing on my frame. I added a fairing behind the headtube, two on the sides of the rear brake/wheel cutout area, a single piece of carbon vacuum formed on the outside of my big chainring, and a fairing for the seatpost to slide into as my lease favorite thing about this frame was the standard round post sticking out of the aero seattube.
My stack/reach measurements put me on a shiv or scott plasma...way out of my price range. I have MAYBE $75 worth of materials in this.
original frame[/img]
Modified frame[/img]
While I was at it (and my real reason for posting), I did a bit of carbon detailing on my frame. I added a fairing behind the headtube, two on the sides of the rear brake/wheel cutout area, a single piece of carbon vacuum formed on the outside of my big chainring, and a fairing for the seatpost to slide into as my lease favorite thing about this frame was the standard round post sticking out of the aero seattube.
My stack/reach measurements put me on a shiv or scott plasma...way out of my price range. I have MAYBE $75 worth of materials in this.
original frame[/img]
Modified frame[/img]