VERUS HT - SPECIAL HEAT TREAT 4130 STEEL

True Temper's VERUS HT Series tubing is made possible by True Temper's decades of experience in the heat treatment of 4130 steels for maximum performance. As steels are strengthened by heat treatment, the ductility is reduced. If you were to heat treat 4130 steel as hard as possible, the tensile strength would go all the way up to 255,000 psi. But the steel would very brittle and subject to failure by fracture, making it unsuitable for bike frames. The metallurgists at True Temper designed the VERUS HT heat treatment to reach the high level of 175,000psi., while still maintaining good ductility.

VERUS HT is also available at 150,000 psi tensile strength, midway in strength between True Temper's 110,000 psi Stress Relieved VERUS steel, and their 175,000 psi VERUS HT steel tubing. Naturally, frame builders use this tubing when they want characteristics between these two strengths of steels. This VERUS HT maintains the workability of the stress relieved VERUS, and approaches the strength of the VERUS HT Special Heat Treat.

The VERUS HT tubes, when designed for road bikes, gives you a light and lively frame which will hold its alignment. In mountain bike diameters, you get a frame that goes where you want it to, and will survive many more seasons than aluminum frames, while riding much better for all those miles. Knowledgeable aggressive riders know that steel frames have just enough compliance to improve handling on rough terrain.