Originally Posted by
cyccommute
This is a misconception that keeps getting spread around. Both frame materials give ample warning before failure. Most people just don’t know how to listen to the warnings. Neither material is going to just explode if it does fail.
If there is a material that doesn’t give warning before failure, it is steel. Steel just snaps and is broken. Fracture propagate rapidly and there is seldom the creaking and groaning that preceded aluminum failure.
Ok so for all intents and purposes, as I said ,there is little warning before failure. If 'most people don't know how to listen to the warnings', then its effectively like there aren't warnings for the users.
This could get fun- we are talking materials an semantics...a two for Tuesday for ya!