Originally Posted by
elcruxio
With all that you still have the audacity to write that you do not put down people who ride or are fans of steel bikes. Their arguments do not matter because they're religious zealots? Cool beans.
You use steel spokes though. Why not aluminum? They should be better right?
Use of steel in applications such as spokes and bearing surfaces is uncontroversial, as is the use of aluminum in pretty much all applications throughout the industrial world except in threads like this.
By the way, SpeedofLite recently posted a PDF from a Bicycling Magazine article titled
Road Test/Bike Review (1983) CANNONDALE Touring Bike.
The reviewers agreed that they thought highly of the Cannondale touring bike in many regards, including comfort.