Originally Posted by
mike
I cannot ride the bicycle with full confidence knowing that it has old-school aluminum frames epoxied to steel lugs. Always in the back of my mind is the doubt and haunting concern that a catastrophic failure could happen at any moment...
I really wouldn't worry about it. Scroll down to the bottom of this page and look at the post-crash damage to my Technium:
http://backroom.hardsdisk.net/technium.html
Both the bike and I bounced and rolled a few times before coming to rest.
The head and seat tubes are still in perfect alignment to each other. There's absolutely no sign of joint failure. If I came across a suitable replacement fork, wheels, crankset, handlebars, well everything really, I wouldn't hesitate to straighten the stays, rebuild it and ride it.