Today's CF is made pretty well when compared to older OCLV stuff. When CF finally does fail, it fails catastrophically causing massive failure. I've had steel fail slowly, bending and breaking at the seat post so the saddle was loosened. I rode several rides on it before I needed to replace it. CF would have snapped off and planted me horribly.

Life is a full contact sport. Let's face it, cycling is dangerous. Hell, find me a sport that isn't dangerous. I play softball, hockey, indoor soccer, baseball and cycle. Not sure when or how, but I will likely get hurt eventually - I already have been.

Depends... I just cracked my carbon fork in a crash in a crit, but that certainly wasn't the first time I had gone down with it. At the right speed, with the right angle, any frame can break.

So far, I gather, that Aluminum, Steel, Ti or Carbon frames can all fail, but when CF fails, it cracks and/or snaps into pieces.

Metal frames cracks, gets dented and/or bends, but never snaps into pieces.

Ti keeps looking better over the years and most durable......


Okay, I just made that one up. :D