Originally Posted by Seggybop
1018 is barely steel at all, with an almost useless .18% carbon content. It may as well be considered normal iron.
Wrong.
Anything over 0.06% will harden a little....
Reynolds 853 and Columbus tubings have about the same carbon content...
But yes, it's not really a tubing for a steel frame. Alloyed steels are alloyed for a reason, and they are what you want in frames....