Originally Posted by
Deshi
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.
"almost certainly never seen anything but a perfectly smooth velodrome"
HAHAHA! WTF? Did you not just see Shelly Evans (the rider of the BMC) go head-over-heels then her bike get launched and flip over 5 feet in the air and it came down with the whipping rotational force!?! They were already going maybe 30MPH then the bike was whipping faster than that. No race bike would have survived that. Only a BMX bike, maybe.
You guys swear that steel bikes will save the world. Get a grip. Stop worshiping the past. It's a material of which bikes are made, not a religious icon.