Very true, outside of full custom status the tubing mix means litltle outside of coffee talk with our friends. I love my bombadil, and I loved my 531 bikes but I find I can ride the bombadil without worrying about flexing it to the max under my generous body while still getting a "lively" ride.
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:28 PM, dougP <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > As both BG & GP point out, the art of design has been fine tuned over > decades. The recognizable names making steel frames today have > probably thousands of frames each in their experience. They know what > they're doing. Spend your time on the fun stuff like picking out the > ideal parts for your own bike. > > A question just occurred to me: So you get all this info about tubing > diameters, thicknesses, strengths, etc. What do you do with it? It's > not really info you can act upon. Grant's e-mail puts it into > perspective. With 37 years experience, he got fresh input from an > ironworker. > > dougP > > On Sep 7, 5:02 pm, Leslie <leslie.bri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > AND, there ya go.... Straight from Grant.... Cool! > > > > (I'm assuming everyone gets the RBW emails?) > > > > -L > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.