Maier's version of simulated carbon fiber looks like ass, and looks even worse after the first ride. It's not actually the colored plastic, it's just a paint-decal-ish coating over the plastics to give it that carbon fiber look, and it scuffs and rubs off. It really doesn't look even close to real carbon fiber anyways, it's just alternating black and silver squares. Even just the hood by itself looks bad to me. From a distance some simulated cf looks good, Maier didn't even get the color right, it just looks greyish-silver.