Did anybody here get a Raleigh Trent tourist bike with tail fin for their xmas in 1962 ?
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Tail fins
Dec 24, 2021
Last reply: 4 years ago
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Na, I didn't have an xmas in 1962.
Interesting how that "the all steel bicycle" marketing slogan has changed nuance and implication with time...
a steel is good
and today would indicate a "low end" frame, or what you buy if you can't afford ali or carbon fibre.
Generally true but there is still a market for steel alloy frames. Depends a lot on the grade of steel.
Tim
Steel is still good.
Depends, what you want. Carbon is soft, but doesn't fatigue, but needs special tools. Ali is good, but in order to get the weights down it does fatigue. Steel doesn't fatigue, but is weak if light weight.
Often the cheaper frames are better, stronger because they can be heavier.
I think Titanium is the fashionable thing.
It is astonishing how much some people will pay for a bike. They will spend thousands to shave off a few grams when they have 10s of kilos excess around the waist.
as long as it has a tail fin it is all good ....
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