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Stainless steel strengthened: Twisting creates submicron 'anti-crash wall'

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102 points wglb | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Gualdrapo ◴[17 Apr 25 16:35 UTC] No.43719186[source]▶
I wish someone like Columbus/Reynolds/Tange could catch on this. It'd be awesome a road bike made of fancy/extra durable stainless steel tubing, lugged, horizontal top tube and that classic geometry but with disc brakes and thru axles.
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1. nabilhat ◴[17 Apr 25 20:19 UTC] No.43721766[source]▶
They caught on, but with more appropriate stainless alloys. Columbus has XCr, Reynolds has 931. Either can be brazed, or silver soldered into lugs, or TIG welded. Cinelli does mass production of the bike you're describing, minus the lugs.

304 can't be optimized to a point it'll compete with the vast range of other stainless steels that already exist. Something else will always be more corrosion resistant, or stronger, or tougher. 304 exists on price. It's quick, common, and cheap. This process makes 304 expensive, uncommon, and slower to produce. The proven concept is what's carrying value here.