Re: Steel framesets with V-brake studs?

On 7/23/2025 11:55 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 7/23/2025 10:27 AM, cyclintom wrote:

On Sun Jul 20 08:34:36 2025 AMuzi  wrote:

On 7/20/2025 4:26 AM, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:

cyclintom, 2025-07-18 23:36+0200:

I should add that there are plenty of 2nd hand steel bike on Ebay and
since you don't have to worry about them wearing out, you can choose
what you want.

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Well, I would worry about steel frames wearing out. The VSF T-100 I am
currently riding is my third adult bike. My first one was a Decathlon
Riverside from circa 2000, a time when they still used steel. It lasted
about 50.000 km before breaking, and I did not think about keeping it
back then. I think should have.
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That does prove that steel frames do fail, though they can be repaired.
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Everything fails.  Steel frames are much more easily
repaired than any other format.

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Jobst's frame failed not beczuxsed "everything fails" but because it was a super large frame made of standard 1" steel tubing. In my experience and as a man who once rode quite hard in a 42/25 low gear up ae steel as 24% grades, that steel was very highly unlikely to fail. I NEVER had a high grade steel frame fail.

 You're riding a Basso Loto yes?
Knock on wood before you set out on a ride
 https://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/basmia1.jpg
 

Indeed. I've seen two steel frame failures (neither were mine)
- one was a DeRosa sometime in the early 90s. The frame was a few years old, the seattube cracked and separated from the bottom bracket. Didn't appear to be rust.
- the other was a Cinelli, maybe ten years old. The bike was absolutely gorgeous, chrome plated then painted with candy apple red metal flake. The downtube seprated from the head tube from internal rust.
I'm sure as a percentage there are just as many stories of 'quality' steel frame failures as any other material.