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    Should your next bike be steel?

    Mar 31, 2022 3 minutes
    Photos masoncycles.cc, Ben Frederick, Pirelli

    Its unique performance characteristics means steel can still meet the demands of a broad range of today’s road bike users like no other material can. By rights, aluminium and then carbon should have killed it off, but instead steel continues to evolve.

    By remaining relevant, steel has seen continued innovation from dedicated designers and frame-builders. Whereas older steel frames were defined by slender, uniform tube shapes, today’s performance steel road bikes utilise developments in tubing and manufacturing processes. The result is a

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