On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:18:52 PM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > For a mind-blowing example of the above, be sure to read the road test > of the titanium road bikes in the current issue of BQ. (I'm going to > leave the big reveal to Jan, if he wants to pick up on the cue...) >
i'm inclined to believe that frames of any material can have "optimized" frame flex characteristics as far as performance is concerned. all the talk regarding stiffness with respect to racing bikes seems a little overdone, if not a little misleading, since removing material - be it steel, CF or Ti - from the frame to put them at combat weight must also reduce stiffness to some degree, esp. when that the bulk of that weight is in the main tubes. i'm not 100% on that, but would agree with Jan that it points to a correlation with weight and flex. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/cJsBxdVG30AJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
