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Re: Curved seat stays...
      01/25/04 11:04 PM (24.218.178.253)

awhile ago dave sent me pictures of an early prototype. i'm sure it rides beautifully, but visually it hit me as slightly out of balance. granted, seatstays are always the thinnest tubes on a frame anyway, but somehow, to my eye, these felt too thin, too delicate. but its a purely visual reaction. perhaps its analogous to sloping TTs. when they first appeared, folks thought they looked odd. now...

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* Curved seat stays... Dave_Thompson 01/23/04 05:18 PM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... M_A_Martin   01/23/04 11:39 PM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... David_Kirk   01/27/04 12:38 AM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... M_A_Martin   01/27/04 04:28 AM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... Dave_Thompson   01/28/04 01:13 AM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... Climb01742   01/28/04 05:30 PM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... Dave_Thompson   01/28/04 11:49 PM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... David_Kirk   01/29/04 02:14 AM
. * Bike names M_A_Martin   01/29/04 05:06 AM
. * Re: Bike names Climb01742   01/29/04 03:56 PM
. * Re: Bike names David_Kirk   01/31/04 04:40 AM
. * Re: Bike names Dave_Thompson   02/02/04 03:44 AM
. * Re: Bike names M_A_Martin   02/02/04 04:45 PM
. * Re: Bike names Dave_Thompson   02/02/04 05:27 PM
. * Re: Bike names David_Kirk   02/06/04 02:31 AM
. * Re: Bike names M_A_Martin   02/09/04 04:51 AM
. * Re: Bike names David_Kirk   02/13/04 08:19 PM
. * Re: Bike names Dave_Thompson   02/13/04 08:24 PM
. * Re: Bike names David_Kirk   02/21/04 03:48 AM
. * Re: Bike names Dave_Thompson   02/06/04 05:06 AM
. * Re: Bike names kio   02/06/04 03:55 AM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... David_Kirk   01/27/04 03:57 PM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... Dave_Thompson   01/24/04 12:01 AM
. * Re: Curved seat stays... Climb01742   01/25/04 11:04 PM

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