When will carbon fiber become illegal due to the health concerns?

If GoreTex (which is still extremely available) is your template here, then I doubt we'll see any noticeable change on carbon fiber shoe availability.

my understanding is that carbon fiber is supposed to be coated in something so that the dust and fibers don't get out

About Gore-Tex, there is not only a health concern about PFAS, but the fact that these chemical compounds degrade extremely slowly and are spreading everywhere in the world. They have been found in every living organism in the world and their production has only increased, despite 3M, a major producer of PFAS, being aware of their toxicity as soon as 1970.

The "dryer " the layup is, the lighter the plate is (less epoxy ( plastic)). Also more fragile.

"carbon fiber" is carbon fiber reinforced plastic. Just like fiberglass except the fiber is carbon. Bikes, airplanes, etc are generally a fabric- a weave just like a shirt or a bedsheet. There are layers at different angles depending on where the strength is needed.

The there's one-directional sheets: lighter but more fragile, and better obviously with more straightforward loads.

Then there's injected carbon: more like a bucket of short fibers mixed with the plastic and sprayed into a mold. cheaper and easier. your materials can be waste from another manufacturer. Cheap bike frames are made this way (Trek)

Any cutting or sanding or drilling creates dust. very small and light dust that would go right through an N95 mask. super nasty. Gotta wear the right stuff.

Dust and vapors are what often causes non-smokers to get lung cancers. There's so much nasty crap out there. The dirt that comes off your car and dries on your garage floor has magnesium chloride in it, treated wood has chemicals that kill bacteria, plywood has glues, OSB plywood has formaldehydes.... on and on. (by the way, all that weed you're smoking and vaping... A M F. )

Anyway, asbestos just sitting there doesn't hurt you. carbon plates encased in foam doesn't hurt you. Fluorinated ski wax sitting on a bench doesn't hurt you. If you overheat it when you're waxing, or brush it after it dries- that's what hurts you.

Again, this is why we don't do a lot of manufacturing in the US. We have regulations that protect both our workers and the public that drinks the water downstream from the factory. We also don't let 12 year olds work 14 hour shifts.

Meh. Suburban democrat voting white folks need their products and comforts.

As long they have a yard sign telling the world that love is love etc.

Anything that has the title "NOT CLICKBAIT" is always 100% clickbait.

OP could at least source the claims

Hello?

The new asbestos? Where?

Right, and this is why the myth of these plates being energetic spring is just that - myth.

It's the "fabric" like layup/manufacturing of what most people envisage when talking about carbon fiber that creates the elastic rebound and resiliency in thinner layups. Because the fibers essentially run in-tact, the full length of the layup. It's this property that creates the ability for layered sheet carbon fiber to "stretch" and spring back under load. This does not happen with carbon fiber reinforced nylon like these plates.

But thanks for posting because you are like the 2nd or 3rd person I've ever seen post that also understands what these plates are and how they differ from what the public perception of them is.

Don't knock until you try.