I'll steer clear. If I like a bike, I tend to ride it into the ground. (46,000 and still running, 25,000, 22,000 until frame ending crashes, 19,000 when the fork failed, 17,000 and still running, etc. I have had bikes die from broken fork crown, blade, chainstay, seattube, and seatstay.) I take how a bike frame fails seriously. I want bikes that wiill go untl the seattube, chain or seatstay fails. Someplace where I don't get hurt when it happens. A bike with an aluminum steerer is a bike that will never be mine. To inspect it for cracks is a 20 minute job just to get to it. And you probably still have to pull the HS race. (See the thread titled "Helmet" if you want to see what a crack there cost me.)
Ben