> Nowadays if you are from the school of 'steel is real' then you are going to have to buy a cheap 'bicycle shaped object', get something custom handmade or go

> Nowadays if you are from the school of 'steel is real' then you are going to have to buy a cheap 'bicycle shaped object', get something custom handmade or go for something deliberately hipster-retro. You might consider this to be in the second category, but here is a high-end bicycle maker that does exclusively steel frames: http://www.rodcycle.com/ http://www.rodcycle.com/ Here is their advocacy for steel frames: http://www.rodbikes.com/articles/steel.html http://www.rodbikes.com/articles/steel.html