Look, I don't doubt that you enjoyed your BK or that you found it comfortable. But your description of how it rides is just not accurate. The OS tubeset and geometry alone indicates it was not designed to "soak up bumps" and I can tell you from abundant experience riding this frame and many others that it doesn't, at least not in comparison to typical road frame of any material. Your username suggests a bias towards steel, which doesn't help your credibility in this...just sayin'. Your description of how the BK rides hints of the stereotypical and irrational anti-everything-but-steel rant that many steel-philes continuously spew. You may or may not be one of those people...but thats the impression I get from your username and mischaracterizaton of how the EAI BK frame rides.