BikeBiz.com:

And Boeing is doing OK also. It’s sport equipment makers who are feeling the pinch in the rapidly worsening carbon fibre famine. A university professor at an American university has said the US military is going to win this war…

Phil Collins, an assistant professor of physics at UC Irvine, specialising in carbon nanotubes, said: “If you are a small manufacturer of bike frames or tennis rackets, you can’t throw your weight around like the military. If there’s a shortage, you’re at the bottom of the list.”