Originally Posted by
Recycled Cycler
It doesn't matter. Whenever anyone says "that bike is made outta gas pipes" they're making fun/ putting down the bike basically saying it's garbage. That's the current usage of "gas pipe" relative to a steel bike. You'd never call a Waterford a gas pipe bike. But you may call a Bikes Direct steel bike a gas pipe bike, depending on if it's cheap steel or not.
But that's not my question, I would like to know what kind of steel tubing, or piping, was used back in the 1880's to early 1900's in the construction of bike frames? I can only assume from your answer that you don't know just as I don't know, fine, I can live with that.
Does anyone else know?