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Old 05-18-20, 10:02 AM
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I'd go with the steel rails. If they bend you can probably bend them back and at least finish the ride with a saddle. If the carbon breaks you're standing up for the rest of the ride. Same reason I use aluminum handlebars, seatpost and stem. Steel doesn't have the same catastrophic failure mode that carbon does, and the small weight savings doesn't seem worth the risk to me.
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