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@hippy
In rode an £300 aluminium fameset bike over the Paris Roubaix course this year. I've done thousands of training miles on a £100 aluminium Ribble frame. I'd done thousands of commuting miles on an alu Langster and I'm back on the aluminium Kinesis because my steel Condor snapped.
Don't tell me that alu is no good for 'around town' or 'long rides' or any other classification of cycling because those statements are wrong.