a totally different carbon look than my friends does. What I mean by that is that his, as you look at the carbon weave in the direct sunlight his has a wide spaced, sort of lattuce look to it. Mine on the other hand is much tighter. In fact there are no spaces inbetween. It has a tightly woven appearance, almost like looking at a magnified piece of cloth.

I'm thinking that since my firends frame is a (M)54 and mine is a (XL)58 that mine would be a stiffer build for more stiffness because it is a larger frame.

BTW......... the frame is absolutely incredible. Superb in every catagory.

What year is your bike? The frame size does not matter for the weave. They changed the design in late 2003 early 2004 I believe. Sounds like you just have an earlier version. The weave doesn't have anything to do with frame size as they use the same tubes.

K

What he said.... The newer CR-1s have the lattice type weave where the earlier ones had the tighter weave.