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I am thinking of buying a cro-mo tubed bike and had some questions about the stuff.
Ok, so the reason that I want a cro-mo bike is mainly the stuff that I read about it being very comfortable and also very fatigue-damage resistant. It will probably be a summer bike so I dont care about corrosion issues. I like the thin tubing looks of cro-mo bikes too but in contrast with aluminium bikes (which are all either 6xxx grade aluminium, some times hydroformed, or 7xxx grade aluminium, most of the times in straight tubes) Cro-mo tubes come in many grades. Like 4xx, 6xx, 8xx and even with branded tubes, (colombus, reynolds etc).
I have checked some bikes that I like and apparently, despite of all of them being built from cro-mo the price differences are huge!
So I had a question, does it really matter if the tubing is branded? For example I seen a bike that is built from reynolds 8xx cro-mo tubes and it costs about 800euros for just the frame! Whist another cro-mo bike that I checked and liked a lot its built from a 4xx series house brand cro-mo costs about half the price! I assume that the 4xx series one is less rigid but more comfortable whist the 8xx is less rigid (faster?) and less comfortable. Do you think that there is actually a built quality issue here or are the frames somewhat the same (in quality matters) except the grade of the steel?
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I am thinking of buying a cro-mo tubed bike and had some questions about the stuff.
Ok, so the reason that I want a cro-mo bike is mainly the stuff that I read about it being very comfortable and also very fatigue-damage resistant. It will probably be a summer bike so I dont care about corrosion issues. I like the thin tubing looks of cro-mo bikes too but in contrast with aluminium bikes (which are all either 6xxx grade aluminium, some times hydroformed, or 7xxx grade aluminium, most of the times in straight tubes) Cro-mo tubes come in many grades. Like 4xx, 6xx, 8xx and even with branded tubes, (colombus, reynolds etc).
I have checked some bikes that I like and apparently, despite of all of them being built from cro-mo the price differences are huge!
So I had a question, does it really matter if the tubing is branded? For example I seen a bike that is built from reynolds 8xx cro-mo tubes and it costs about 800euros for just the frame! Whist another cro-mo bike that I checked and liked a lot its built from a 4xx series house brand cro-mo costs about half the price! I assume that the 4xx series one is less rigid but more comfortable whist the 8xx is less rigid (faster?) and less comfortable. Do you think that there is actually a built quality issue here or are the frames somewhat the same (in quality matters) except the grade of the steel?
Many thanks /img/vbsmilies/smilies/smile.gif