Mason Cycles opens for business, boutique steel & alloy road bikes now shipping

@Jeb haha i clicked on the article to post the same thing. kinda bummed you beat me to it.

What @Andrew said. Though I think in describing frames the full word should be used… because ‘alloy’ sounds cheap.

Oh, FFS. @ Andrew and A_G, …..No s*%t the Aluminum is alloyed, so is Steel, heck every worthwhile engineering metal on the planet is alloyed to create the properties desired for it’s particular application. If you use the general term “alloy” to refer to what the frame is made of it could be Steel, Titanium, Aluminum and on and on.

To be precise (and sound like a prick), steel is an alloy by definition (iron + carbon + other stuff).
On the other side, aluminum and titanium are atom types, and can therefore exist in a pure form. So the comparison is not really accurate.

That being said, using the term aluminum to refer to an alloy that mostly contains aluminum is probably the simplest thing to do. And it’s actually the common use of the term outside the bike industry…

JBikes nailed it: no one is confused when the term “alloy” is used with respect to bicycle frame materials. Now that we’ve addressed that non-issue, is it okay to talk about the bike in question?

I’m with Jeb. Referring to aluminum alloy bikes as “alloy” is just dumb. Almost every metal use in manufacturing is an alloy. It would be better to refer to the frames as aluminum, since they are 90%+ aluminum.

When iron and nickel is mixed, you get steel. It’s an alloy of the two metals. No such thing as “pure steel”.

This looks amazing!