Originally Posted by
Lascauxcaveman
All these answers you all giving are about why high-ten is quite often acceptable, the OP was asking about situations where high-ten would be better. Apart from the stiffness-due-to-tube-wall-thickness one, I don't think any of your answers satisfy the OPs question. And even then, you could, if you really wanted to, make thicker walled tubing out of cro-mo*, so even then, hi-ten is not really any better.
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*and yes, I realize one the advantages of cro-mo is you can make thinner tubing from it, thereby saving weight.
Originally Posted by
willydstyle
Yes, this was exactly what I was asking.
The question has been answered. Hi-Ten has exactly two advantages over other materials (as outlined in my first reply).
1) Price.
2) Tubes are more resilient (by virtue of being thicker).
That's it. Everything else says CrMo etc are better.