Originally Posted by Spoonrobot

Klein and Cannondale transformed aluminum into almost as good as steel for a significant price increase and lower durability.

This is a big part of why current metal bikes often ride so poorly compared to the frames from the 1990s and earlier. Designing bikes to pass a machine fatigue test has led to oversize tubing and a move away from what made bicycles so great that was learned through decades of trial and error. Now we have a ton of bikes that suck to ride but hey they'll last forever or at least pass 100,000 cycles on this here testing jig

I see this as nothing less than anti-steel propaganda to increase market share for new non-steel frame material. It would not surprise me in the least if this was another example of "Studies show sugar is a super important part of the human diet" (Paid for by a grant from Sugar Industry LLC).