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Top 5 | 2023 Steel Mountain Bikes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2024
- Not a fan of carbon or aluminium mountain bike frames? There’s always steel!
Steel frames have their own unique appeal; they have slinky, slender tubes that can create gorgeous, clean lines and they’re more easily repairable than carbon or aluminium.
Not only that, but the inherent qualities of the ferrous material steel frames are made from gives them a damped yet feedback-rich ride feel, with the “steel is real” phrase often thrown around for good reason.
So, if you’re looking to turn into a metal head, here are 5 steel-framed mountain bikes that should be on your radar!
#SteelIsReal #MTB #HeavyMetal
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Cotic Rocket
02:30 Fairlight Holt
04:33 REEB ST
06:52 Bird Forge
09:06 Pipedream Moxie
10:37 Outro
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What's your dream steel mountain bike? 👇
On One Hello Dave :)_
Eskar Japhy in their Burlap paint with blue anodized bits
might not count since it has a 7071 rear triangle but the original limited run Actofive P train, alternatively I'm a big fan of the idea of getting something like a ragley hardtail or building something and making an epic singlespeed fully rigid bike from it
Mason Raw
My Cotic Solaris Max and a custom 3D Racing klunker with a carbon fork , 27.5 plus and aggressive geo makes it hard to choose when I go for a ride.
Total steel convert here. Stanton Switch9er and On One Tik Tik. Love the feel of a steel HT
You and many others feel the same by the look of it! There is definitely truth in the steel is real mantra in some cases!
My super slack 4130 steel Marino hard tail is awesome. You can custom order pretty much any geometry specs you like, any colour and they’ll even engrave your own personalised logo onto the head tube. 👍
Everything I've seen about Marino has been positive
It's a great looking bike and very versatile Chris, when you ride it ;)
Got to be stanton bikes
Some lovely bikes and great to see the brand getting back on its feet after some turbulent times
Loving my Bordest Bardino 3 with X01 AXS, 160mm Lyric, King Bearings, Onyx hubs and 5Dev crank and stem.
Sounds a bling build! Their ti frames are lovely too
We're spoiled for choice of brilliant steel frames and they all look amazing, Pipedream's attention to detail and quality as well as sliding drops sold it for me. But that Reeb looks tasty.
I bought a Pipedream Moxie last year. Unfortunately their sizing chart suggested a medium size, instead of small. The frame is really well built, but not much chance of fitting a decent dropper post due to the curved seat tube. It rode well, but is very stiff for a steel frame. I sold it due to always feeling it was too big for me. The new sizing charts have changed now, and suggest a small frame. I ride a Cotic Jeht which is a brilliant steel fs bike. Also have a Kona Honzo ST in a small size which fits me better. Don't expect any reply to emails from Pipedream as well. Be warned.
And my experience with pipedream was great. I was concerned about the size and had an open chat with the owner explaining me his logic and what size should be better. Sirius is stiffer than other steel bikes I had yes, but it pedals better and has an "oomph" when you want to charge. So that's that too.
@@Mudncheese Well I guess you were lucky the. not getting a reply is off putting for some people and could lose sale. The moxie is a nice bike, but if I had bought a small frame, I might still have it now.
Its always an issue buying a bike blind we suppose! Little things like this that'd you pick up on a test ride go unnoticed until it's too late.
Give me a steel bike over a plasticy crappy carbon frame any day of the week. The best mountain bikes ive ever had have been steel.
There have been many wonderful steel bikes over the years, pre-CEN testing Cotic Souls were joyous to ride!
Yes I would go steel bike over carbon and the bird forge would look good next to my bird zero am in acid yellow colour 😊
Sounds like a nice matching flock of birds is what you need!
Tried to buy a Pipedream but their stance on customer service left me wanting to give my money to someone else. Seemed like an annoyance to have to talk to a customer. So I’m in the process of buying a Stanton.
I ride a torrent steep I built from frame up. I think it’s a less stiff version of the chromag rootdown, whom I consider the premier builder of steel
Chromag do make lovely steel frames, we'd be keen to throw a leg over the new Darco!
that fairlight in purple, reminds of the 1991 reynolds 501 raleigh mirage in purple.
I just finished building my Chumba Sendero. Ticks all the boxes for me.
What a great name for a bike!
Moxie MX3 is the 🐐
We definitely enjoyed reviewing it!
Im definitely thinking about going with a Curtis frame for my next build.
You'll love what Tom has coming in for review soon then 😉
Is It reperable a real topic? Lot of talk about it, but i never had a single problem with alluminium bike
I love the Reeb. I haven't bought it because for the price they are asking, offering a 4130 seems like a small thing to me. That frame deserves a more special tube. But today it is the most beautiful steel double.
Surly one love
Surly have plenty of lovely steel bikes!
I'm having a flashback of 1990s steel snobbery. 😂
Steel all day long 😎
Beauty's
I'd have a Coal 84 if they did a small frame. British company that actually welds the frames here too.
I think he does custom geo if you ask
Ohhhhh we forgot about Coal! the 84 is a very cool bike!
Both my gravel bike, and MTB are steel!
I have State All Road 4031, set up more as an ATB or Drop Bar MTB, and my MTB is a new Transition TransAM reissue.
Just rebuilt an On-One 26" Inbred, converted from a single speed to Eagle GX 1x12. On the lookout for more steel frames but my wife will kill me 😢 kinda wish I picked up a Ti 456 when I had the chance back in the day too
Got a Pole Taival! Great allrounder and very capable. 🤘
How supple is pole frame
I can afford any bicycle at my old age but I still prefer vintage steel due to its anti-fatigue qualities. Heat treated Chromoly lasts way longer than any other bike material.. it’s not even debatable. Steel is way heavier though which is a big negative.
you guys forgot about Zoceli bikes ! they are way mor hot than some of these for sure ! 🤙🤙
For the price, can't beat a Marino out of Peru.
They are very good value and customisable as well!
Love the bike design th-cam.com/users/postUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L and functionality. It is hard to align the front tired to center the disk brakes. The brake wheel touches the stationery side of the brake caliper and pad. I aired the tire up to 40 psi as the markings say 40-60psi. Left the house for a few hours and came back to an exploded innertube.All in all it seems to be a good bike. Have not ridden it yet though so that's the max of my knowledge. Update, put a new innertube made sure the tire was set properly and it did the same thing in under 20 minutes as second pic shows.
Now, 2,6 tires fit on Holt or not?
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You didn't feature the amazing Orange P7 ?
The P7 is a true classic for sure, but we thought we'd give some lesser known bikes some attention!
Steel can't be hydroformed?
No bread winner bikes?
List is bogus if the nimble 9 isn’t on it
Is it time to drop 'more easily repairable' from the list of benefits of steel...? It was certainly true in terms of getting a crack fixed or a panier-rack boss reattached in some far-flung place (when dreaming that you might take your steel tourer round the world), but I think it's less true/valid now. Depending on the frame and where you are in the world, there's an argument that it's easier to fix a carbon frame than a thin-tube steel one. Aluminium is certainly difficult to repair - but is generally more robust and cheaper to replace anyway.
No. There's still far more people with the skillset to repair a steel frame than there are to repair carbon. Even in the developed world. The issues isn't ease, its cost. And as cost of living increases, labor does too. With repair, in basically any industry, the main cost is the labor. So for a job of similar time table, the cost will be similar. The question is whether the cost difference of a steel frame vs steel repair is enough to warrant repair. Carbon frames the differential is greater due to the upfront cost of a carbon frame.
@@cjohnson3836 poor phrasing on my part. I should perhaps have said that the discussion is more nuanced than it was 20 years ago (inevitably). I fully agree with your comments in the broad sense - but might argue that they're less applicable to the steel frames in this video (which are all fairly high end). I'd contend that there aren't a vast number of people who can do a decent job of welding thin-walled 853 tubing. Perhaps a crack at the end of a tube (but that shouldn't happen with a quality frame) but not a bad dent or heavy scratch in the middle of a tube. There aren't a vast number of folk doing a good job of fixing carbon either. I guess my point was that for a frame costing more than £1k, the chances are you're sending it off to get fixed - whether it's steel or carbon.
Again, I agree with your overall point. Perhaps what I'd like to see is more honesty in videos like these - "expensive frames are harder to repair than the steel clunker you had as a kid, regardless of frame material". But TH-cam isn't the place for nuance... 🙂
@@grigorbrowning No repair is going to be the same as it was new. Even with carbon. You're still overlapping existing material with new layup. If you're at the point you're cutting a piece of frame off, be it carbon, steel or otherwise, in order to put a new piece in, you're already beyond the point where you give two turds of whether its 0.5mm thicker than before. And its not like a few cm of a different size is going to change the bike in any meaningful way. You're drastically overestimating what is being done.
@@grigorbrowningyou would have to tig weld it. Skilled tig welders should be able to weld such a frame.
Our point is, of the the three main frame materials in use in cycling, steel should be the easiest to repair. Easiest to repair well? Maybe not, but certainly you could be in a lot of places around the world and get a steel bike fixed to a degree, which you certainly couldn't do with carbon
You guys do realize that aluminum can be repaired right? And aluminum doesn't rust like steel either.
You have to ride both to understand the difference. It’s the way they ride, not the weight, serviceability, or durability. They ride much softer.
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