Re: [CR]953 steel tubing

(Example: Framebuilders:Mario Confente)

Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:16:11 -0800
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]953 steel tubing
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <047d0241f0be5e4001bcc46a10727435@comcast.net>
References: <047d0241f0be5e4001bcc46a10727435@comcast.net>


On 3/2/07, Bianca Pratorius <biankita@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I believe that the newer tubing is about a pound lighter than the older
> light steel tubing sets. The way that they get the build up of the 953
> tubing to have such a low final weight is not just because the 953 is
> inherently lighter but also because you save about a pound ( I am told)
> using the threadless headsets of the newer design.

I doubt there's any way anything close to a pound could be lost between threaded and threadless HSs on KOF bikes assuming both were engineered with light weight as a priority. Is the steerer supposed to be massively lighter, or is this assuming the stem will necessarily be? Or...?

Kurt Sperry
Bellingham WA USA