Weight/stiffness of new steel bike

[paton]

Strael have a video about the chat that they had with Reynolds on the subject of weight and steel and ISO bike tests.

The ISO tests apply to production bikes.
A custom bike would be different.

 

[paton]

On the subject of stainless tubes for bikes.
Fashion seems to have moved away from stainless, or it might have become more difficult to get stainless tubes.


https://www.kvastainless.com/
https://kvastainless.com/order/

https://www.columbus1919.com/en/xcr-en/

https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/materials/past-materials/s-953-steel/
https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/materials/steel/s-931/
https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/materials/steel/steel-921/

https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/rtl_steel_alloys_extract.pdf

 

[bikeworkshop]

On the subject of stainless tubes for bikes.
Fashion seems to have moved away from stainless, or it might have become more difficult to get stainless tubes.


https://www.kvastainless.com/
https://kvastainless.com/order/

https://www.columbus1919.com/en/xcr-en/

https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/materials/past-materials/s-953-steel/
https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/materials/steel/s-931/
https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/materials/steel/steel-921/

https://www.reynoldstechnology.biz/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/rtl_steel_alloys_extract.pdf

Stainless never really made sense imo, as titanium would be superior if you want a hard to weld bare metal frame.
Reynolds did manage to produce a stainless tube with similar properties to the usual steel alloys, but it's much harder to weld,
and has much higher density than ti.