Originally Posted by cyccommute

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You are still not getting it. Steel isn’t any harder to repair than aluminum. Steel isn’t hard to repair at all. But if someone doesn’t have experience with thin steel walls and doesn’t know that the bike has thin steel walls, they are going to make a bodge of the job. You cannot see into the tube to see how thick it is. Most welders probably won’t take the time to figure out how thick the metal is. They will just weld away and probably do a lot of damage in the meantime.

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