Originally Posted by
cxwrench
To be perfectly honest with you neither frame material nor 'design' have really anything to do with ride quality. Unless you have some kind of mechanical pivot in the frame (Trek Domane) all frames are so close in ride quality you'd never be able to tell the difference in a blind test. Tire pressure is another story.
Or so say the salespeople at bike dealers that don't have a single steel bike to sell you.
The owner of our local Cannondale shop (now out of business) sold the hell out of that idea. His personal bike, though - the one he actually rode - was a Surly.