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Thank you whoever wrote this piece to remind me how trash the old steel frames have been. I managed to break a few in my time. These days, we do still get badl
by AstralStorm 2y ago
Thank you whoever wrote this piece to remind me how trash the old steel frames have been. I managed to break a few in my time.
These days, we do still get badly made frames. The cheap poorly made composite being the key failures.
Of course, every now and then someone makes a void in an aluminum frame so it won't live 20+ years.
Stainless always was a joke, titanium almost nobody makes because it's pain to weld.
I will also kick the "researchers" for using lifetime mileage of people who do not use their bikes to do everything.
It's not particularly easy to put a car on a train, for instance.
20000 km seems almost funnily short for someone doing a daily commute on a bicycle. What, replace a bike every 2 years?
- SauciestGNU 2y ago20000km is a joke, I've put that distance on a bike without even replacing the chain (although I should have). I have new bikes and old, my average frame age is probably 40 years old, and I seek out old steel frames with particular tube sets and construction methods because they're often just as good as today's steel frames.