i dont like how plain it is, how designs are restricted really because of the tubing. i dont like the weight issue, just a personal opinion. i always see folk bigging up steel and im not sure why. but i remember that the forum is alot of newbies following 'cool' members etc so if they say steel is cool, then newbs automatically do. i think that if aluminium was available at similar prices as steel is and it wasnt so mass produced in the far east, that much stell products wouldnt be available i dont know, maybe im wrong, but i get the entire feeling with the steel trend, that people ride frames made in stell because they think it makes them individual or that they are sayin f**k you because the ride a frame that is "made in england/britain" (p.s i had a curtis back in the day, and loved it when i had it, but now i look back, and it was a pointless frame for me)