The latter was utilised by the tube manufacturers that have now become household names (Columbus and Reynolds). Modern steel frames are either constructed from cheaper high tensile steel or higher-grade chromium-molybdenum. Ribble's Kirkham workshop circa 1994, with the paint booth in the background. This also has the added advantage of reducing the frame's overall weight. These techniques also make lugs superfluous the separate sections of tubes can now simply be welded to each other. Allowing Tig or Mig welding to become the mainstay of today's modern steel frame construction. Today’s advancements in the steel hardening process have resulted in a material that is far more tolerant to higher temperatures. Here's one of the latest batches to be engineered. Reynolds has been producing steel bike tubing in Birmingham, England, since 1898. Techniques such as silver brazing were employed instead. Early steel tubing was adversely affected by high temperatures, so the use of more modern techniques such as Tig or Mig welding was an impossibility. The tubes were then brazed to these lugs rather than welded. The traditional process for manufacturing steel frames was to take separate pieces of steel tubing and attach them to a lug (connector). The eagle-eyed may spot one of the early Alloy ones too. The original Ribble shop on Watery Lane, Preston, in the mid-1990s, adorned with Reynolds Steel frames. Albeit with the frame fabrication being moved to larger premises within Preston. From these premises, he fabricated steel frames, a tradition that spanned a century and more. When a warehouseman and cotton goods packer by the name of Richard Thomas Geldeard set up a business at 35 Watery Lane, Preston. Ribble can trace its history back to this era. To an era when the might of the industrial revolution was in full swing. Each one of these can trace its ancestry back to late Victorian Britain. For the majority of the 20th century, there was only one option when it came to bicycle frames - steel. What makes this material so different from any other and where does this affection for steel frames originate? Read on to find out more įirstly, we'll start with a brief history lesson. But what is the allure of this seemingly simple material? One that we take for granted on a daily basis and makes grown men go misty-eyed with nostalgia. Steel frames have long since been regarded with reverence in cycling circles. 'Steel is real' is something anyone who has been around cycling for any time has heard countless times.
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