Maximum temperature yesterday: 59 Â°F (at 8:54 am) Minimum temperature yesterday: 45 Â°F (at 12:54 am) Average temperature yesterday: 55 Â°F. Note: Actual official high and low records may vary slightly from our data, if they occured in-between our weather recording intervals...
Four popular bicycle frame materials are steel, aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber. Beryllium, Metal Matrix Composites and other materials have so far demonstrated limited practicality in bicycle frames. Mysterious and seemingly miraculous beryllium is one-third the weight of aluminum and six times as stiff as steel.his is another reason to look for metal frame parts (such as dropouts) that are made of titanium rather than aluminum if you are shopping for a carbon fiber bike. Discontinuity of materials can create stress-risers where the carbon fiber meets the other material. The stress-risers can lead to failure.
When is a metal not a metal? Look at a car, plane, or motorcycle and you see lots of metalâor do you? Quite a lot of the metal-like materials around us are actually alloys: metals that have been mixed with other materials (metals or nonmetals) to make them stronger, harder, lighter, or superior in some other way.teel is an alloy of iron, for example, that contains a small amount of carbon (different types of steel contain more or less carbon). Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, while brass is the alloy you get when you mix copper and zinc.