Originally Posted by
San Rensho
A frame is geometry, period. Different geometry makes a bike handle different. A $10k bike and a $1500 bike with exactly the same geometry will handle exactly the same. People say different materials make the ride "feel" different but I don't buy that. I can't tell any difference between a stee frame and an aluminum frame (which is supposed to be very stiff). The biggest factor in bike "feel" are the tires, wide v skinny tires and tire pressure, soft v very hard.
Holy crappage, lose the crack, it's killing you! If that were true, why wouldn't all the bikes just copy the optimal geometry and use the cheapest materials?
Talk to a machanical or materials engineer and you'll get a far better understanding.