10 frames a day over perhaps 250 working days a year is only currently 2,500 frames so ambitions of 110,000 per year is huge and perhaps unrealistic. Labour costs in Europe are very high compared to the cheaper countries in Asia. Yes China is more expensive now but other countries there have more competitive labour rates. Also just because its manufactured in Europe doesn't mean it goes automatically to the top in quality. Taiwan has been manufacturing CF frames a long time and has the skills and technology to do it well. It's a learning process that takes time. When I saw a statistic online back along it said over 95% of all bikes manufactured in the world were steel and obviously thats because in many poorer countries bicycles are essential transport and across Africa, Asia, South America they are extremely price sensitive but even in Europe the average price of bikes sold is quite low. I think in the UK it was only a year back the average was about £380 and that included ebikes. I don't know what percentage of bikes sold are CF but its going to be very low even in European countries. When I pass a bike rack its rare to see a CF bike in it. Yes I realise CF bikes may be more sunday group rides etc and there are differences of when such bikes are used.
Anyway my point is the bike market for CF bikes is not that large.
Ebay, Argos, Amazon rarely seem to have new CF bikes to sell and they are a huge chunk of the market for bike retailers. More bikes are sold at
Halfords than the whole local independent bike shop sector although admittedly Halfords do some CF bikes in the Boardman range. I always have a nose in Halfords if I'm at a retail park with a Halfords just to see what they have and I rarely see any interest in Boardman bikes and there aren't many held in stock as far as I can tell. Carrera models dominate with many more cheaper brands making up the numbers.
You can get a false perspective looking at GCN videos or similar. They are sponsored by high end brands who clearly want to push their expensive bikes.
I have quite a few bikes but no CF bikes at all and not even any bikes with CF forks except I have a older Cannondale aluminium frame with a CF blade/aluminium steerer bonded fork. I think I may have a CF stem somewhere in the spares box.
I would estimate CF bikes sold in the UK are less than 2% perhaps a lot less.
Looking at Amazon best sellers in bikes its all steel and aluminium and some some seriously weird stuff. It seems no one wants to sell CF bikes via Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Selle.../550026011/ref=zg_bs_pg_1?_encoding=UTF8&pg=1
