Confess about your geared ride

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.

Fair enough. But what I've been trying to say - perhaps not very eloquently - is that some people still seem to like riding older steel bikes. Some other people find this hard to understand. I'm suggesting that one reason could be that pound for pound (£) they might actually be better suited to some kinds of riding than a very stiff, steep-geometry modern road frame made of an inherently stiffer material (weight for weight) such as aluminium - the kind of bikes, in fact, that I see lined up in the windows of bikes shops near me, and lined up at traffic lights on my morning commute.