Why can't our bikes be made of this steel?

[Ishrub]

Very entertaining embedded video!

Hardox 400

The all-around steel that resists wear and abrasion.

Hardox® 400 is an abrasion-resistant steel with a nominal hardness of 400 HBW. Hardox® 400 is an all-around wear resistant steel.

www.ssab.com

Not sure I'd need to upgrade to Hardox450 then.

 

[Kevin frazier]

Just quit dropping the dang thang, them cheap bars are gonna bend. That stuff is too expensive even for you

 

[warp9.9]

Very entertaining embedded video!

Hardox 400

The all-around steel that resists wear and abrasion.

Hardox® 400 is an abrasion-resistant steel with a nominal hardness of 400 HBW. Hardox® 400 is an all-around wear resistant steel.

www.ssab.com

Not sure I'd need to upgrade to Hardox450 then.

No metal is better then the other! Just better suited for a particular requirements. This hardox stuff sounds like the material I pocked to make beds on on of out suppermax prisons. Its not the strongest steal nor the hardest but its abrasive resistance is phenomenal . I originally found it used inside concrete trucks as the gravel, fines, and sand are pretty abrasive. Anyway after introducing this type bed inside the wire they noticed less pieces missing from the beds that were used for shanks. Its like the high manganese steels you take a hack saw to it and it wears the teeth right down on the sawblade. Put this inside bars and well they just could not cut thru it without a cutting torch. You'll find the alloying elements help define and control the grain stucture with .31% of carbon and the extra alloys allow for building a variety of carbids in the case heavily in the chromium carbides that are like little armor skid plates.
Ok back to my beer