I'm looking to buy a new bicycle, i think i'm going to get a cannondale and i've been researching frames and my options are aluminum, carbon, or alloyIt will be a road bike and everywhere i read i find warnings saying how fragile these bikes are, particularly the carbon and aluminum, that if the drop or anything it might dent or crackI don't race a whole lot but i want something that i can have for a while but will also be very comfortable riding for long periods of timeDoes anyone have good advice or experience with these frames and can tell me if these are huge factors that I should worry about or are the warnings just because it has happened a few times.
Are you connecting to a terminal strip or tying two wires together?
Alloy could apply to aluminium, steel, titanium, or any other combination of metalsNo biggieIn the real world, a quality bike made from any of the above will hold up fine to several years of hard riding, as long as you take proper care not to squish it, crunch it, bend it, crash it, or otherwise to anything but ride itCarbon gets griped on because if proper care isn't take, small cracks can develop that lead to big problems, or the tubes can be crushed in a clamp or by banging hard into something (like when handlebars whip around in a crash) Aluminum gets damaged when it's bent at all - like in a crash, it doesn't take well to bending and unbendingSteel and Ti are more resilient, but can also get beat up.
Are you connecting to a terminal strip or tying two wires together?
Alloy could apply to aluminium, steel, titanium, or any other combination of metalsNo biggieIn the real world, a quality bike made from any of the above will hold up fine to several years of hard riding, as long as you take proper care not to squish it, crunch it, bend it, crash it, or otherwise to anything but ride itCarbon gets griped on because if proper care isn't take, small cracks can develop that lead to big problems, or the tubes can be crushed in a clamp or by banging hard into something (like when handlebars whip around in a crash) Aluminum gets damaged when it's bent at all - like in a crash, it doesn't take well to bending and unbendingSteel and Ti are more resilient, but can also get beat up.
