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Old school steel tubes are quite crush resistant, with a ratio of diameter:wall thickness of about 35 for the thin bit in the middle of a 531 seat tube. Some oversized aluminium tubes have a ratio of over 50, an aluminium soft drink can has a ratio of about 200.