Raw Steel Mtb Frame

Hardly any folks these days buy a steel frame as their first mountain bike.

Raw steel mtb frame. We do 29ers 26ers and 650b ers. Chainstay cracked in the middle of nowhere. As for his philosophy on building bike frames sadoff has this to say my aim is to build frames that do not hold the rider back from the. I started with a columbus steel cinelli gazzetta track frame.

More info all bikes. Good old steel frame. Raw frames will oxidize but won t necessarily corrode. I have to explain to people sometimes that my raw aluminum frame won t rust even when they understand that it s aluminum.

I ve done one raw steel frame but left it deliberately half arsed as i was after a definite rat look. So the title says it all for the most part. Back to the roots where it all began with just a simple steel frame. Oxidized aluminum is not the same as corroded aluminum.

Super stable at pace and in the air with cornering capabilities you d expect from a smaller wheeled bike. 29er full suspension carbon mountain bike frame mtb frames air shock absorbers 199 99 2002 gary fisher mamba mtb bike frameset 17 5 medium hardtail steel usa charity. It s those who ve ridden a while and have tried aluminum and full suspension who come a knockin. Since then his frames have been ridden in both the olympics and world championships.

Full range of mtb frames at chain reaction cycles. Mountain bike frames with free worldwide shipping available. Make sure a raw finish is what your after because it s a lot easier to remove paint than it is to apply it. For centuries pretty much every bicycle frame was made out of steel.

No worries since any car shop or well equipped tinkerer can weld or solder steel. Easy to produce and to process durable and forgiving. It had a pink over white paint job with decals on the outer most layer of paint. I have this old 1930 s huffman dayton bike that i m fixing up.

Yup this is what i was trying to get at as well. Paul sadoff the frame builder behind rock lobster started building steel bicycle frames professionally in 1988. Unlike bare steel the oxide layer can protect from corrosion. That sounds really cool mentally files away for a future rat bike build.

We chose steel because it offers the best combination of value comfort and resiliency of all the popular frame materials.