Steel 1018
05-18-07 | 10:42 PM
#2
Yet another vegan biker
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 965
Likes: 6
From: Trapped behind the corn curtain
Bikes: Sakae Prism, Vintage Fuji bike(S), too many bikes, one from scratch bike.
Any of the steel bikes at Wallmart.
1018 is just plain carbon steel. It would be found on only the cheapest bikes.
1018 is just plain carbon steel. It would be found on only the cheapest bikes.
05-19-07 | 11:30 AM
#4
Senior Member
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,262
Likes: 92
From: SW Ohio
Bikes: Classic lugged-steel road, touring, gravel
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.
05-21-07 | 05:45 AM
#5
THE Materials Oracle
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 502
Likes: 1
From: Finally... home :-)
Bikes: Univega Alpina 5.1 that became a 5.9, that became a road bike... DMR TrailStar custom build
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.
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....
