My thought is that f/b seatstay attach is more solid and (ahem) transmits the load from the rear wheel into the frame more directly / harshly than a conventional wrap over.
My personal fave is the shoot-in design a la classic Raleigh Pro "Brampton Victor".
===================================================== Mark Petry 206.618.9642 Beautiful Bainbridge Island, WA mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net ===================================================== The quick and the dead.
- Niki Lauda ===================================================== -----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org]On Behalf Of Lee Berg Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:06 PM To: classicrendezvous Subject: [CR]Fastback seatstays?! Was: Trek TX900 Frame Ebay# 1018754618
Can someone who _likes_ fastback seatstays please try to convince me that these are not just an ugly gimmick? (Yes, I am trying to evoke a response! ;-)
Lee Berg Palo Alto
Skip Echert wrote:
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> Ebay outing -
>
> There is a 1976-78 TREK TX900 frameset on Ebay, 63cm. Ebay #
> 1018754618. The best frame Trek made during this period, drilled lugs,
> fastback seatstays.