Originally Posted by
Niles H.
This claim appears again and again, and [I hope I may be forgiven for pointing this out] it is false.
Everyone is entitled to his/her own opinions, but not his/her facts.
It is a fact that aluminum has no fatigue limit; it's not just my claim or my opinion. The lack of fatigue limit is a well documented physical property of the material. I made the point in my post that competent designers of aluminum bicycle frames consider this fact when designing frames.