Originally Posted by
Ironfish653
That’s why, until you hit a certain price point; call it ‘Enthusiast’ as opposed to ‘Consumer’ the vast majority of mass produced bikes will be aluminum.
Isn't there a scale/progress chart there?
Kids bike/$99 Big Box bike - cheap steel
Higher end Big Box Bike/low end bike shop bike - Aluminium, some CrMo
Mid-range mass-produced enthusiast bike - Aluminium with carbon fork, some carbon frame options, brand name CrMo (eg Reynolds 520) available from some manufacturers
High end bike, suitable for competition - Almost all carbon, some Ti, high grade CrMo or other proprietary steel alloy (True Temper, Columbus, Reynolds 6xx/7xx), some Al frames with high spec groups (eg, CAAD10 or Spesh Allez with Di2)
Custom one-off manufacturing - Mostly steel, a lot of Ti, virtually nil in Al or CF.