Agreed. And we might as well start referring to the traditional diameter
tubung as undersized tubing.
Shaun Meehan
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery
thill@gmail.com wrote:
It's been 20+ years since oversized tubing became the usual size of
tubing. Almost
Almost 10 years ago, I bought a 1991 Waterford Paramount frame. Besides the
sexy pearly metallic red color, the most noticeable thing about the frame was
its True Temper OS stickers. OS was for over-sized. I didn't understand at the
time why they made such a big deal out of the OS tubes when
On 02/18/2014 10:13 AM, Shaun Meehan wrote:
Agreed. And we might as well start referring to the traditional
diameter tubung as undersized tubing.
Shaun Meehan
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery
thill@gmail.com mailto:thill@gmail.com wrote:
It's been
As long as we use terms like standard and oversize, there's bound to be
confusion and mistaken ideas. With the sheer variety of not only tubing
diameters, but also wall thicknesses, butting, cross-section shapes, heat
treating options, etc, not to mention a lot of different frame designs,
On 02/18/2014 12:54 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote:
As long as we use terms like standard and oversize, there's bound to be
confusion and mistaken ideas. With the sheer variety of not only tubing diameters, but also wall
thicknesses, butting, cross-section shapes, heat treating
I have heard some say that RBW uses oversized tubing on their bikes.
But their tubes don't look any bigger to me than other steel bikes.
What does this term mean in reference to RBW bikes?
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Traditional steel road bikes (ie, through the very early 90s) used a 25.4mm
top tube and a 28.6mm down tube. Riv uses a 28.6mm top tube and a 31.8mm
down tube (in inches, 1, 1-1/8, and 1-1/4).
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Michael john11.2...@gmail.com wrote:
I have heard some say that RBW
AASHTA
From Sheldon Brown's glossary
Larger in diameter than the traditional sizes. This term is commonly used
forheadsets and frame tubing. Oversized parts are stiffer, and can be lighter
for their weight if the walls are made thin enough. If the walls become too
thin, however, they become
It's been 20+ years since oversized tubing became the usual size of tubing.
Almost nobody uses the old sizes of tubing anymore. I move that two decades is
enough that we can start just referring to the formerly oversized tubing as
tubing or standard-size tubing or whatever term makes it sound
