>>1956254My roadie is Columbus (a fancy type also), my tourer, 853, my mtb, Tange Prestige Concept, my commuter, Tange #1, my other roadie, Columbus (also a fancy type), my milk crate bike, basic cromo and hiten stays, my fixie, Reynolds 531 Competition, my ridiculous project, 531 ST
It's not 'simple as'.
The types of aluminium tubing used in racks can also be bent, even several times without badly compromising its integrity.
Nitto cycles its aluminium stems and seatposts in pretty extreme bending tens of thousands of times to check that it is all good.
If you want reliable aluminium, just buy it new and don't be a dipshit.
Steel bikes and especially steel components, which 90% of suck shit, can also fail randomly. Your flexy rack is gonna make you crash or some shit more likely than a nice aluminium blackburn, topeak, bor yueh etc rack or something is gonna fail. A good rack design also has two top rails, to allow lower mounting of panniets which won't mar the racktop.
