Originally Posted by
carleton
That's steel for you. And he was just riding down the street, not tumbling head-over-heels in a crash at the World Championships.
So what's your point?
The point would be that the steel frame has been stressed and stressed over and over again, then some hipster got a hold of it and decided to ride it on the streets and probably drop off curbs and generally abuse the bike. The carbon bike in the video on the other hand has almost certainly never seen anything but a perfectly smooth velodrome and is much newer with much less use.
Steel can break, no doubt about that but it takes a hell of a lot more use and abuse to break steel than it does carbon.