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CyclingAbout has an amazing video on frame stiffness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8PGpKUKro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8PGpKUKro i guess it makes
by LesZedCB 4y ago
CyclingAbout has an amazing video on frame stiffness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8PGpKUKro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f8PGpKUKro
i guess it makes sense when this article is talking about road bikes, but in MTB and gravel bikes, where geometry is so much more malleable, the geometry plays such a huge role in stiffness, almost independent of material.
you can have a crazy stiff steel bike (e.g. kona honzo esd) or a crazy compliant carbon bike.
- dranudin 4y agoThis. You can more or less get any kind of stiffness, with any material by changing the geometry. I guess the different feel that people have when using frames of various materials is more due to geometric constraints of the frame. A frame with the same geometry (which includes tube thickness etc) and a different material will behave differently. But in theory you could construct a frame with equal stiffness in all directions from other materials. However, you might run into other problems, like fatigue resistance or tensile strength or sth with a particular geometry. That will then force you to choose another geometry for other materials (e.g. aluminum frames will have a bigger tube diameter than steel frames, due to buckling of the tubes - if you want equal weight)