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Old 04-20-13 | 06:21 PM
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Oria steel tubing for framebuilding

The link is to an Italian Cycling Journal blog entry about Oria tubing, but is short on specifics. According to the blog entry, the weight for a complete uncut RANF tubeset (head tube, seat tube, down tube, top tube, chain stays, seat stays, and fork blades) weighs 1990 grams. Unfortunately, I can't find wall thickness or butting profiles anywhere, but for a weight comparison, an SL tubeset consisting of the above tubes plus a steerer tube is 1925 grams, and an SP tubeset including steerer tube weighs 2215 grams. The SL and SP steerer tubes are listed as weighing 205 grams, so if you subtract 205 g from the 2215 g SP tubeset weight, you get 2010 grams for SP compared to 1990 for RANF.

There are some issues comparing the tubeset weights directly since the length of the uncut RANF tubes isn't listed.
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