Originally Posted by Steely Dan

answers are also meaningless without knowing how much experience people have commuting with frames of the 5 major materials given in the poll. i would imagine that a relatively small percentage of forumers on this forum have ever done any extensive commuting on titanium or bamboo bikes.

also, there's the unmentioned, uncomfortable truth that goes along with all of these types of frame material debates: not all frames of any given material are of the same quality. would all of the people voting "steel" in this poll really maintain their stance if the choice was between a old steel gas pipe beast vs. a high end 7005 aluminum cyclocross stallion? maybe some of the die-hards would, but i suspect that the loyalty to steel is not ubiquitous across the board. a bicycle's quality is defined by so much more than just the grossly oversimplified steel vs. aluminum vs. carbon vs. "other".