Originally Posted by
carleton
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.
First of all, yes, I watched the same video as you did and saw the same wreck you did.
Second, I never said steel is a superior material, I simply stated that the steel bike you posted was more than likely stressed over and over again and then used beyond its limits in which it was designed for.
Third, I highly doubt the steel bike would have broken into 2 separate pieces in the same wreck as in the video. Would it have survived that wreck? Probably not but it would have remained 1 in one piece.
Forth, I am going to go pray to the Tange and Columbus Gods now.