Originally Posted by
spathfinder3408
I have never had a problem with steel cracking or breaking. Had an Aluminum frame crack and saw a Cadd 2 frame that look like torn paper on a seat stay. Maybe your right about the steel being hard to weld, but wonder how they did it in the first place when they made them? All my steel bikes are lugged making them even stronger.
Steel is not hard to weld if you have the proper equipment, suitably shaped tubing and know what you are doing. And, no, lugged construction is not automatically stronger. Cyccomute's point was that the ability to repair steel frames in some third-world village is a myth.