Re: [CR]RE: Dead Horse Materials

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

To: kurtsperry@netscape.net
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]RE: Dead Horse Materials
From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:15:45 -0500

snipped: kurtsperry@netscape.net (Kurt Sperry) writes: "There seems to be a presumption about that steel as an engineering material is no longer being developed." and... "While the elasic modulus of steel is pretty hard to bump up, it's "strength" properties such as yield strength and ultimate tensile strength are still the subject of ongoing development."

*** *** unless i misunderstand the CR list 'company line', it's not the steel that is missed as much as it is the perceived care and emotion that once accompanied the material's transormation into a bicycle frame. that is, it's not 'steel' that needs further development, it's the notion that methods from an era two plus decades ago should be resurrected...that's what i see as the 'dead horse' issue. and... steel for fine framemaking is plenty strong enough. e-RICHIE Richard Sachs Cycles No.9, North Main Street Chester, CT 06412 USA http://www.richardsachs.com Tel. 860.526.2059