You know, I saw a quote in the current issue of Bicycling magazine. I don't know why I subscribe to it, I guess I like the self-abuse. Anyway, they were interviewing a musician who rides a Heron lugged steel bike. Bicycling asks the guy "So when are you going to get a lighter bike?"
If this is the kind of marketing-driven "journalism" that prevails in the world today, you're never going to convince anyone but the already-reverted *that's us* that a steel frame is not only "just fine", but "probably better".
Geeze, I hate that magazine. "HEY, THERE'S A RECESSION ON, LET'S PRINT A BUYER'S GUIDE CHOCK-FULL OF MULTI-THOUSAND DOLLAR BIKES, THAT'LL MAKE PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY CAN'T PAY THEIR MORTGAGE." They are so out of touch with reality, it's not even funny. To think that I almost worked there...
Pete