Re: Steel framesets with V-brake studs?

zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:

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.

 
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.
 
That does prove that steel frames do fail, though they can be repaired.
 

 
Everything fails.  Steel frames are much more easily
repaired than any other format.

 
 
 
 
 
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.
 

Only frame failures I’ve known have tended to be aluminium road bikes being
used to commute into central London, so 15/20 miles.

So high mileage probably sub 10 years, clearly ridden in wet conditions,
but frame failures seems rare enough to be notable.

Some frames can clearly be repaired, of those few that I’ve known of seems
to be Carbon Fibre which gets repaired, I’m told a repair is as strong as
it was due to the nature of Carbon Fibre.

But seems a fairly low probability, either way, my Gravel bike I’m retiring
it’s that Gravel frames and technology has changed, than the frame is worn
out or so on.

Roger Merriman