Menendez1293
Oakley Expert
Two words: Carbon Fiber.
Helluva lot cheaper, much lighter, can be made stronger than steel. Composite technology has come a LONG way in the last 10 years. Hockey equipment companies have been making carbon fiber sticks that are molded in any shape they want for years. Extremely flexible, very resilient, cheap Mexican factories, very low temperature molding allows you to make a LOT cheaper molds.
Don't know about all of that. Whe. I was watching how it's made carbon fiber it said it took a very large amount of heat to produce carbon fiber. It said you need to start with a special sheet of fibers and heat in a special containment with no oxygen till it was pure carbon fiber. And after that process it can be molded to what it needs to be. It said it was a very complicated processs