Re: Dogma weld: Bikefanclub.com

While it is true that overheating and passing over a lug can cost strength, I must demur from the notion that Pinarello's Dogma is not worth the time or effort to do better. The welds on the examples I have seen are messy, not just ugly. This may be a feature of the material being so very difficult to work with and it may be a positive inasmuch as BadgeJohn rightly notes that too much heat makes the welds less strong. But I have three simple points:
1. This Dogma costs how much? And we are supposed to think that welds that look like this are just part of the deal and we should think this is okay because? Pinarello could not take the INSANE amount of time (not my notion, but Badge's) to get these more pleasing at this cost?
2. Comparable AL welds from DeRosa are about...uhh....a million times better. Look at Principia for handsome toothpaste welds. Look at Cannondale for smoothed over welds that don't fail. Somehow I think Pinarello might match their peers on a bike that costs this much and purports to be the top of the line.
3. Badge is quite correct: we have other choices. I certainly won't be choosing Pinarello because this sort of workmanship speaks to values that I cannot share.

dbrk

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