Originally Posted by old's'cool

The preponderance of information on this page suggests that Valite is a steel alloy, not aluminum [see the Fuji Del Rey description & discussion, about half way down the page]. Furthermore, that Valite is pegged somewhere between Hi-ten and Cro-Mo in terms of material strength. If so, frame stiffness of a Valite-tubed bicycle would likely fall between these two norms as well. Skilful employment of quad-butting in the tubeset design might bring it close to unseamed, double butted Cro-Mo in terms of weight, if not compliance (i.e. opposite of stiffness).