[KennyBlanken]

The author is a retrogrouch parroting the usual bike myths you hear over and over.

Aluminum, steel, carbon, etc are materials that can be engineered out to wazoo to have different qualities, many of them overlapping. Aluminum bikes can be wet noodles and steel bikes can be bone-jarring stiff. A big-box-store aluminum bike is nothing like a race bike made from high-end reynolds aluminum. Etc.