>there are people on this and other forums who claim that the ride quality of a carbon frame is not only comparable with titanium and steel
- but actually surpasses it!
- How can Titanium have a ride style to Carbon or steel: rediculous.
How did this all come about? Have the millions spent in marketing Taiwan baked carbon-reinforced plastic finally paid off?
= NO !
Or am I deluded? Are integrated headsets a really good idea?
- YES ! Are OS bars and stems really, really necessary?
- NO 100% waterproof jackets are fully breathable as well?
- NO! Helmets don't protect you in a crash?
- NO, they do!
I'm no Luddite and I like a new shiny bit as much as the next person but it starts to bother me when people convince themselves and then try to convince me of stuff I know not to be true.
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Thats for their stupid minds than aint it...
What next? CDs sound better than vinyl
well lets put its this way there aint no 'crackling' on a CD... , Carling tastes better than a Belgian artisanal ale,
- very debateable Westlife are better than the Beatles?
- now this is a BEEG NO !!!!!
Where does it end?
- god knows...
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Titanium is flexible, ive heard, though never rode it - similar to a 531/501 frame, cause lets face those frames were not the best !
Also, last i knew TIT. has to be welded in an inert atmosphere as far as Im aware !?!?!!!!!!!!!!
Even a Tange basic doublebutted frame was better than Reynolds efforts - I know, I used to have one for 15yrs / multiple thousands of miles...
Carbon material used in cycles / frames are interesting it is a good material bar none BUT not the be and end all...like I like a good steel frame the user-serviceablilty of it surpasses carbon ANY DAY ! Big tour = steel mandatory : carbon - you could be sectioned even for thinking about using it on a tour...
ALU': Rock stiff - though at least all the power gets to where it needs to go - but I feel if your experienced in cycles and rode a few / for a fair amount of time then you 'get' the difference in frames. And instead, last year, buying an off-the peg alu basic raliegh if it would have been a good steel jobby I would happily of had that as I know that it would have lasted a lot longe than the alu. which I have now.
If I had money to buy other bikes then i'd think of a carbon but only if the dimentions where 'workable with'.
I wonder if saddles are more critical ie comfort on a stiff frame compared to a steel ot titanium ???!?!???!??
