Originally Posted by HillRider
As an aside, do you use steel for all of your bike parts? Handlebars, stems, cranks, etc. are almost exclusively Al (or carbon) these days and your safety is actually more dependent on these items than the frame in case of sudden breakage.
Aluminum alloy handlebars and stems are not subject to the same repetitive stresses as frames and are therefore not as likely to fail, and unless you you're standing on your pedals a crankset failure is not that much of a safety problem; you just slow down and stop.
