Originally Posted by William Karsten
Jim,
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And I really didn't mean to slam people who talk about geometry.. just a lot of people on the internet read and repeat. They really don't know jack about what they repeat either. Point in fact, AL frame failures, people go ON and ON about how AL will fail. But none have been able to post pictures, etc. ...
thats an interesting point. check out this page:
http://www.efbe.de/erenn.htm
they test lightweight frames with repeated stress cycles. there is not a single steel frame in the
top list. and suprisingly lots of aluminium. nowadays steel cannot compete in the weight category.
but i remember that they used to test steel frames years ago. and not a single one made it to the top.
at that time not even titanium frames made it to the top. but cannondale did!
i have to add that i prefer steel and titanium but these tests show that there are a lot of myths floating
around.