Thread: frame materials for Road or Mountain

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Or you could buy a real mountainbike







(I must be out of the loop - I had to google cell bikes and read some reviews - the GMC/ozito of the bike world!)

I commute on the train 3 hrs to sydney, would you want to lock up a real MTB and fall asleep? If a $1000 XC/commuter style hardtail goes missing, I'd be Peed off but I would not start a woe is me style tread and pop the anti sad make me glad pills.

If I lost a decent bike to some scum bag, lets just say Ron would have an itchy finger due to the profanities he'd be deleting and the resulting infringement points.

Originally Posted by dobbo

I commute on the train 3 hrs to sydney, would you want to lock up a real MTB and fall asleep? If a $1000 XC/commuter style hardtail goes missing, I'd be Peed off but I would not start a woe is me style tread and pop the anti sad make me glad pills.

If I lost a decent bike to some scum bag, lets just say Ron would have an itchy finger due to the profanities he'd be deleting and the resulting infringement points.

Fair enough, but if it was me I would build something cool (and cheap) for that purpose... Like an ultralight rigid single speed using mostly SH components.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

Fair enough, but if it was me I would build something cool (and cheap) for that purpose... Like an ultralight rigid single speed using mostly SH components.

I wish I had the time

Here's an interesting quote from Fausto Pinarello from an interview a couple of years back when asked about the bike industry embracing all things carbon...


"Scandium aluminium has not been fully exploited and there's already another alloy which they're calling G7 that is lighter still, but it's still metal.
We don't know if consumers will be interested. They want carbon-fibre because it's light and it's new but in my opinion metals - magnesium, titanium and aluminium - are still the best materials for bicycles, but not the lightest"

I ride a steel Salsa frame from the US and love it, I find after going from large diameter ali to this bike the difference in vibration and harshness is very noticeable and as a result I find it smoother and much less fatiguing