Looking at new HT frames, Maybe I'll get a steel one, titanium too expensive, so whats scandium?
For example the Kona Kula primo frame which I love the look of is going for a fair price on wiggle.

It's a clever alloy. Light, stiff, and with a nice degree of "feel" to it.

Nice stuff, but seems to be used a lto more for the race head frames. If you're a racer, go look at it, but if you ride all dayers and trails, go steel.

So its got more of an Aluminium feel to it then?
I ride "all mountain" I suppose.
I love a Kona ride and its a beauty of a frame but I'll probably go steel. Only racing I do are enduros/marathon events.

Cheers.

For all mountain, all dayers, most of the scanium frames out there will be a bit too racy, I reckon.

Someo of the nice longish travel steel HT frames out there might suit you better.

I think it is a good material but maybe not as robust if used a lot over a period of time

The 'scandium' you get in bike frames is not actually truely the element scandium, but an aluminium-scandium alloy.

The scandium term just comes from the higher percentage of it used in the alloy doesn't it?

Then again, aluminium is generally an aluminium alloy.

Google is your friend Karlos

Thanks.

Scandium when used in ref to bike frames means Scandium enriched aluminium alloy, as mentioned above. It basically makes the areas around the welds stronger by changing the metalurgy of the aluminium due to the weld heating. The Easton version uses an extremely strong but virtually unweldable aluminium alloy as it's base, with the scandium making it weldable. I'm not sure what you'd get in terms of advantages by just dropping scandium into regular 7000 series alu, but that's what most of the stuff out there seems to be at the moment.