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i like it. its the School of Benny Hill design
ah i see, so if you want thiner walled tubing to make it lighter you gotta have bigger bits at the joins to keep it all together, hence the curves.
see i learnt somefing today, cheers Nick
According to Dr Iain Roche, brother of the MD Greg and materials science guy, the curvy tubes aren't so much about 'ride quality' - that's down to diameters and wall-thicknesses and whether the tube is ovalized this way or that way - but 'what angle one tube meets the other'. Are you sure you're keeping up with this technical stuff? See that down tube? If Iain wants both ends to meet their respective partners at the head tube and seat tube so as to increase the surface area of the join, then it helps to have that compound curve. All very marginal, obviously, but it's not like there aren't plenty of options with nice straight tubes if you prefer. And anyway, if you hate the look of it...........Personally, I love that one piece top tube merging into monostay thingy thing.
Is there any engineering/scientific facts that prove that wobbly tubes make a difference to the ride characteristics over straight tubes?
i kinda side with the 'not really' side because if they did wouldn't every body be doing it?
agree, the swooping tubes just dont do it for me. Probably rides really well though.
Don't like the look of it all.
But I guess it depends how it rides that counts.
or just plain ugly, depends on ... blah blah blah, think we've been here before
There's a September in the Mortimer Street store, went in there last week. Lovely bit of kit.