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>why do companies that make the best steel tubing in the world use carbon for their forks
This is inherently incorrect, major steel tubing manufacturers like Reynolds, Columbus, and Tange do not create their own bicycles, they simply sell the steel tubing to bicycle welders who make the bikes you see. The finest steel bikes don't use carbon forks, the lightest steel bikes do. Picrel is an example of the finest steel bike, a Hetchins Magnum Opus.

If the value of steel as a building material for bikes decreases the more that is demanded of a component, then why are all BMX bikes all using crmo steel forks? Steel is the ideal building material for durability, not for weight. There are always new steel alloys being made, and even new manufacturing processes, and most of them have never been used as bicycle tubing yet.

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If steel is so great, why do the companies that make the best steel tubing in the world use carbon for their forks?
If steel is so great, why do…