Is this based on your supremely extensive knowledge of carbon fiber and what happens when it's subjected to a "semi-knarly" trail?

You obviously know nothing of material properties luseboy...

it looks good, most of the carbon is up and away from where rocks could gouge the frame which would weaken the area where it is gouged significantly. Looks like the lowest parts on this bike(most susceptible to damage) are aluminum.

I know that when it's done right, as I'm sure it would be, the stuff is crazy strong. Just like most everyone else I'm no expert, but there's a reason they use the stuff in everything from new jumbo planes to F1 cars. I hear you though, it will be an up hill battle to get the DH/FR side of the sport to accept carbon, which is a shame. GT says the the Fury is built from carbon for strength, not weight. I'd love to try one when they become available to regular peons, I wonder if the carbon frame actually rides different from an aluminum one, as is common with road bikes?

carbon fiber has a strenth to weight ratio 10 times stonger than the normal aluminium you will find on most bikes. On some bikes they use the same amount of carbon fibre as they would aluminium so it is very ligh and still strong. On this they have use 10 times more carbon fibre than they would aluminium so that it still wieghs the same a if this was made of aluminium but is 10 times stronger

bike is very impressive, a real work of art but the price for something built to be abused is a bit much, carbon laminated absorbs vibration more than aluminum should be a smooth ride but when it "fails" its over baby. Great material for many high tech applications but most dont involve pounding down a mountain side at speed, but maybe carbons time for FR/DH has come.

no a drop wont snap it carbon fiber is extrodinaly strog,but if the frame were to get damaged it would greatly weaken the bike because once a fiber or fibers fall apart they just keep falling apart its like unknoting string.

and we all remeber the guy who tired to break the world speed record.im asuming a rock hit his head tube or something and then it untnagled?

Oh, and Banshee's are SOOO nice...

This has nothing to do with Banshee. It has to do with PACIFIC(and yes I know they own banshee sadly), taking four of the most reknown names in the sport(Schwinn/GT/Diamondback/Mongoose), and bearing them the shame of their names displayed on P.O.S. department store bikes!

Pacific sucks, but as a HUGE operation they can fund some good enigneers to make cool products like this... I had a 2006 GT DHi and while it was ugly and the BB mechanism was a royal pain, it rode quite well.

Of course, no hucking frame, would be supplied with an air shock!