Originally Posted by
beaverstuff
Hi, Got bored with life; need to work on aother bike.
Am looking for a 70cm (center to center) frameset; I have one - the 70cm Panasonic; see my signature under Univega.
Color doesn't matter; shoudl be Reynolds 531 or similar - 4130 steel alloy works.
Fuji makes a Valite frame - has small percentage of vanadium in the steel alloy.
No carbon fibre or aluminum, thanks, Beaverstuff
Don't want to give unsolicited advice, but just a word on Valite, if you've never used it before... I've heard it has a bit of aluminum in it as well, and my experience is that it's VERY stiff, pretty heavy, and bulletproof. I certainly don't know anything about framebuilding, but I imagine there is a chance a 70cm Valite frame might have some desirable and hard to find attributes.