Originally Posted by
grimace308
youre talking about the people who ride to ride, not ride to look the part?
steel rides well. steel fatigues and repairs well. there is no mystery behind steel. its cool you and your father can afford high end stuff. steal is cheap. steel, while not at the cutting edge of technology, is just fine for the 99.999999% that dont get paid to ride a bike.
steel isnt perfect, but it isnt the dinosaur youre making it out to be.
Steel's great, two of my bikes are steel. But cheap? Quality new frames are pretty expensive regardless of material, and you can get cheap frames in any material you want other than maybe Ti. Said cheap frames are never worth repairing. And the fatigue life of an everyday aluminum frame is much longer than most of us would care to own it.
Steel is good as a bike frame material, just like aluminum, carbon fiber, titanium, magnesium, and whatever other moon materials they're using these days. Frame and component quality matter thousands of times more than material.