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It's a good idea for pressure vessels such as aircraft fuselage sections and hydrogen fuel tanks, where the stress is quite uniform. For the complex loads on a bicycle tube, laying up pre-woven sheets provides a bit more flexibility with placing particular ply angles at particular points. Generally, if a manufacturer draws attention to the method of production, it's because they are trying to draw attention away from the results. Not that BMCs are bad (albeit that they snap in half when crashed), but there are about half a dozen possible ways of making a carbon frame, and any of them can make a great frame or a terrible one according to the quality of design and manufacture, pretty much independently of the actual method used.
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