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
>
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