For years, chromoly steel carried people down screaming descents, up endless climbs, across vast emptinesses.......and it did so over and over again without thought on the same frame. Steel has druability, absorbancy, and "feel"......if a few pounds extra weight is worrisome, then ride a bit more, eat a bit less, and lose it from your waistline.
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..... "I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time." Mark Twain, Speeches
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