steel frame with carbon triangle

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Does a carbon rear triangle add weight to a steel frame? I'm looking for a new steel frame, and
have narrowed the possibilities down to one with, one without.

Don't know about the weight. I think it adds price.

Ciao Maurizio, Bologna, Italy

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Does a carbon rear triangle add weight to a steel frame? I'm looking for a new steel frame, and
have narrowed the possibilities down to one with, one without.

Don't know about the weight. I think it adds price.

It also adds opportunity for failure that a plain ol' steel frame won't have. The other thing to
consider is that if the cycling world decides this isn't a good idea and stops building "two fork
bikes", they'll be the equivalent of purple anodized parts on a MTB in a few years.

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The claim is they reduce weight, reduce vibration and make you more fashionable.

I suspect it reduced weight a little and reduced vibrations just a tab for a steel frame. It adds
the possibility of trouble with breakage down the road.

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Does a carbon rear triangle add weight to a steel frame? I'm looking for a new steel frame, and
have narrowed the possibilities down to one with, one without.

Don't know about the weight. I think it adds price.

Ciao Maurizio, Bologna, Italy

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The claim is they reduce weight, reduce vibration and make you more fashionable.

I suspect it reduced weight a little and reduced vibrations just a tab

for a

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steel frame. It adds the possibility of trouble with breakage down

the

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road.

I have been told that carbon forks (front and back) reduce "buzz." Getting a buzz used to be a good
thing, at least back when I was in college. -- Jay Beattie.

John-<< Does a carbon rear triangle add weight to a steel frame? >><BR><BR>

Yes...

<< I'm looking for a new steel frame, and have narrowed the possibilities down to one with, one
without. >><BR><BR>

What on earth will carbon seat stays or even a carbon rear end do to help the performance of a
steel(or ti for that matter) frameset???

Yikes...marketing run amuck!!!!

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John-<< Does a carbon rear triangle add weight to a steel frame? >><BR><BR>

Yes...

<< I'm looking for a new steel frame, and have narrowed the possibilities down to one with, one
without. >><BR><BR>

What on earth will carbon seat stays or even a carbon rear end do to help the performance of a
steel(or ti for that matter) frameset???

It helps the financial performance of the builder, it is faster/cheaper to glue on the rear triangle
as opposed to all those brazed joints and carefully filed lugs. ;-)

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Yikes...marketing run amuck!!!!

Carbon rear triangles are the McRib sandwiches of bikedom. Blow molded, plastic imitations of the
real thing.

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I'll take a Pinarello Dogma, it'll look cool next to a Bates. Goofytech, is not just a carbon thing.

Scott Goldsmith

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Does a carbon rear triangle add weight to a steel frame? I'm looking for a new steel frame, and
have narrowed the possibilities down to one with, one without.

Don't know about the weight. I think it adds price.

Ciao Maurizio, Bologna, Italy

Yes, the carbon rear triangle adds weight as compared to a bike without a rear triangle. But it
lightens your bank account for symmetry's sake.

App

Interesting reading......

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the builder, >><BR><BR>

you can say that twice, twice. Geezzzz, makers of framesets with carbon plugs and inserts and such
in them can't even agree as to what they do. Aluminum says makes it more complient, titanium says it
makes it stiffer...compact is the 'answer'...yikes again.

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