Originally Posted by
indyfabz
Started riding ti in May after being on steel since 2004. Definitely more comfortable, but I cannot say if that's due to geometry, frame material, tube size or something else besides the wheels, which I moved over from my steel frame.
Maybe one day I will try one of those carbon fiber bikes that seem to be so popular. My only concern there is that I have heard carbon can asplode. Any truth to that?
Probably a lot more due to the geometry and design than the material. I have two steel bikes now after replacing my 2007 carbon road bike with a stainless steel custom frame. The new frame rides better than ether of the two other bikes in terms of both performance and compliance. The other steel frame is really stiff. So it's not the material. Or at least the material has a significantly lesser impact on the ride quality than the design.
J.