Originally Posted by
georges1
Genius wasn't brittle and neither were Neuron, Minimax, Overmax , Max and
Nemo which were all part of the thighly reputed Nivacrom steel tubing, Foco and Ultrafoco were Thermacrom a notch above Nivacrom steel but you had to be careful of not to dent it, Life and Spirit are Omnicrom steel both very good steels and better than Zona and XLR is the pinnacle of columbus because stainless steel. I have two columbus road frames as projects, one is an Overmax and the other is a Genius. I also don't like to ride on heavy bikes or bikes that haven't got a very reactive or lively frame. BTW Columbus has brought back the Hyperion Titanium series of tubing Columbus range of tubes including the new Titanium Hyperion
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Harder, stronger metals tend to be more brittle. The relationship between strength and hardness is a good way to predict behavior."
Anyway, to the point: there's no reason to believe that the riders who were unable to identify the then-current high-end steel frames would have been able to identify the later, slightly higher-end frames. Unless someone told them which were which ahead of time.