Originally Posted by
KonAaron Snake
Disagree...there are plenty of well ridden light weight steel, aluminum, and titanium bikes rolling around. I still see older CF bikes rolling around too for that matter. They're still marketing durability and it'll last, at least my Kona JTS did. Whenever I poke around a new bike shop, the sales person tries to convince me CF will last.
There's durability and there is bullet-proof DURABILITY. Most people today are just not willing to take the weight penalty of a truly durable bike although I do see that the Dutch bikes are coming back. Nothing very lightweight is going to take much of a beating -but if it is taken care of and well-maintained and not dropped/crashed any quality lightweight should last a long time just being merely
ridden. But most can't take any kind of hit or abuse.