If you go by Star Trek rules, all future alloys will be tri-something: tritanium, trinesium...

For the technically curious, you may be interested in details of useful properties for materials found on bikes. Reynolds collaborate with a number of technical organisations to optimise materials, including the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials - University of Birmingham as well as our key materials suppliers worldwide.

https://vault2.secured-url.com/reyno...roperties.html

This thread may be of interest to some. It actually contains some informed opinions about Magnesium...

along with the oddball, "...don't smoke within 25' of the bike...", and, "...the frames self-destruct after one season..." posts.

https://www.cyclingforums.com/t184429...um-tubing.html

If you ever get sick of your Magnesium bike, you can always just take a small torch to it, and set the sucker on fire. AWESOME!!!! Although it may not have enough Mg (%)to ignite.

Has anyone here ever seen a good sized chunk of Mg burn? Too cool.

Wasn't that exact thing featured on an episode of MacGuyver?


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