Originally Posted by
SJX426
Repechage, No seams from looking down the seat tube and head tube. The frame and fork scale to 6lbs+. thanks for the response and perspective. Trying to decide what to do with it, keep or sell.
You will not be able to see any seams, just like Truetemper tubing, welded then further processed to obliterate and homogenize the steel at the weld. True temper did get a bad rep for a while as their tubing did fail at the seams on occasion if the processing was bad and the weld line was just at the wrong orientation during frame construction. That caused Richard Sachs to discontinue using it long ago.
6+ lbs translates to a fork in the 800 gram range and the frame about 2 kilos. Not
that heavy for a 60 cm example.