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Old 02-18-16 | 05:14 PM
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jamesdak
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
And I've broken more steel bikes than carbon. They all break.

Steel:

Cinelli at the head tube
Nishiki Comp III at the rear dropout
Nishiki Team Pro through the down tube
Eisentraut at the head tube twice and once at the seat stay cluster
Gianni Motta at the BB shell
Raleigh Comp at the BB shell
Trek 460 at the BB shell

Aluminum:

Alan CX - de-bonded at the head tube

Carbon:

Specialized Roubaix Pro - BB sleeve de-bonded.
Hmmm, so lets see... Out of all the bikes I can remember

Red 20 incher as kid- steel, no break
Mom's Montgomery Ward I rode for years - steel, no break
The red 50-60 era bike I had on the farm in the 80s - steel, broke the frame where the dropout was crimped into the chainstay one day doing massive jumps on it.
Beige ten speed, beat to heck, crooked saddle - steel, no break
Peugeout in Germany - steel, no break passed to another G.I.
Shogun road bike - steel, no break
Diamond back MB - crashed multiple times - steel, no break
1993 ish Schwinn road bike - steel, no break
2010 Trek Madone 4.5 - CF, break (broken derailleur snapped frame clean through and it them asploded on the spot! yes shameless exaggeration but it really did break, LOL!)
2011 Trek Madone 5.9 - CF, no break
2000 Lemond Zurich - steel frame/CF fork, no break
1999 Schwinn Circuit - steel frame/alloy fork, no break
1972 Peugeot U08 - steel, no break IN 44 years!!
1989 Giordana Antares - steel, no break
2009 Scott CR1 Pro - CF, no break
2003 Trek Tourmelet - steel frame/CF fork, no break
2015 Lynskey R265 -Ti frame/CF fork, no break (in first 46 miles, whew!!) LOL
1997 Giordana Superleggero -All beautiful Italian (oops french) steel, no break but no miles yet.
2003 Kona Jake the Snake - aluminum frame/steel fork, no break
2008 Raleigh Mojave -aluminum, no break.

So lets add that up...

1 of 3 CF frames broke and asploded leaving a hole in the universe

1 of 14 steel frames broke and I still could ride it - TOTAL PROOF, STEEL IS REAL!

0 of 2 aluminum frames broke - Steel is still real!

0 of 1 Titanium frames broke - Yep, you guessed it... Steel is real!

So there you have it. Unquestionable proof that CF bikes are worthless and will totally, totally asplode. I don't see why people chose to deny this. I mean really, come on, it's so obvious.



And I hope no one is really taking this seriously, LOL!
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