Metal Matrix

[Logic.Al]

What sort of alloy is it? Is aluminium, steel or something else?
If I was trying to own one bike from each material do I need to include one?
Of course being 6'4" and 18st a magnesium frame is out. I also vaguely remember mid 90's there was talk of a beryllium frame? I could be wrong.
Lastly is the Dynatech metal matrix the same as specialized?

 

[syncrosfan]

Re:

In 1992 American (the bike company) made a beryllium frame. It never made it to mass production at a price tag of 25,000$ per frame. They only made one or two prototypes so I would say your chances of ever owning that are slim to none. I attached a pic of the wonder-frame, was still lugged and bonded since beryllium can't be welded.
The metal matrix is still mainly aluminum with some "secret" additives. I call mainly marketing bullshit on that, aluminum sounds boring, let's add 0.3% of something something unobtanium and call it Metal Matrix! Speaking of that, do you already have a mid nineties TitanAl frame? (let's say a "Hagan" frame)?

 

[mattr]

IIRC metal matrix is usually an alloy with some added, non-metal, ingredients to modify the performance. Unlike for instance, a scandium frameset, which is simply an aluminium frame where the aluminium alloy used contains a small amount of scandium.

Usual stuff for bike frames was small amounts of ceramic. (i *think* they would have used silicon carbide, but not 100%)

I suspect the differences between the MMC used by specialised and raleigh were minimal, it wasn't very common, or available in many sizes at that time. Unless you were in the military.

 

[Logic.Al]

I don't have a Titanal frame but they are just Titanium and Aluminium aren't they?

I think I see if I can find a Dynatech MMC then to keep some continuity

 

[mrkawasaki]

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=93407&hilit=beryllium

 

[Loungekabouter]

Re:

On the Beryllium bikes, you could try to get a hand on one of those Boralyn Univega's !!

Another interesting mixture is the Carbore-Aloy DEAN used.



Cheers
Jeroen

 

[Barneyballbags]

Titanal..

Tit..Anal..

*sniggers*

 

[Barneyballbags]

Re:

Of course, you also need to consider the aluminium/cheese frames as championed by Manitou

 

[Logic.Al]

Hmmm. Think I'll avoid that one. Maybe just a Metal Matrix.
Then I'll have Steel, Carbon, Ti, Alu and MM