jayg
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Quote from Action Lad on Dec 4th, 2016, 4:54pm:Quote from jayg on Dec 2nd, 2016, 6:15pm:Quote from FlyingLaZBoy on Nov 27th, 2016, 10:49pm: The VTX is strictly aluminum, without folding. Paul, the VTX has a 7005 T6 aluminum boom and rear section and a 4130 chromoly steel cruciform, as does the Sprint X. There's a slip joint under the VTX's seat that allows the rear section to be removed from the cruciform. Okay, Jay, I think you answered this last summer on the way into, or out of Braum's, but why in the whole world would they make the trikes of two different, and potentially tragically different, metals? I'm guessing that ICE uses 4130 for it's trikes' cruciforms, because fabrication is easier, and steel tubing provides a better ride than thicker and larger diameter aluminum tubing that would be required. Also, steel performs much better in fatigue than aluminum.
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