What material should your first bike be? 🤔

What material should your first bike be? 🤔

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[twatts]

First? Aluminium - typically best value for money.

[TrophobieClaus]

I would go for aluminium or titanium. I was riding a carbon road bike, it was a Wilier with 105 and decent wheels, quite nice, fast and comfy, but I prefer to get a BMC Teammachine AL, because it may last longer.
I use to keep my bikes for a while and ride them quite hard. I still ride my 2009 BMC Supertrail 01 MTB, and I love it!
150mm front/rear, 125-150mm adjustable Fork, 11.8kg, still 26“, but technically a 27, 5“, if you know that basically a27, 5 is a 26“ 😅
Wheel sizes xD

[drill_fiend]

Aluminum/Steel for frame, carbon or suspension for fork. Flexy cromo for fork might work but hell no to aluminum fork.

[Johan-vkyd]

My seventie’s ten speed obviously was steel. My second was aluminium. My third (and last) is carbon fibre. The only one that can’t be recycled when it breaks down, I’m afraid. Not even burned for energy. But it’s stiff as brick!

[vernfrier]

You forgot wood. I ride a Montauk wood road bike.

[Sierra-bwgm]

But Titanium just looks so much cooler

[virkelie]

Carbon - the bike material of choice???

[co]

Carbon is not a metal and it doesn't come in tubes that can be welded. So it's out. Just doesn't look right.

[jamesmckenzie]

I wouldn't recommend titanium for a first bike. I recommend aluminium or steel. My first bike was chrome-moly steel. Lightweight and almost indestructible.

[PP-cmre]

Definitely no to carbon. I don’t care how lightweight it is. I would worry too much about it getting damaged.