On Thursday, Jul 25, 2002, at 12:42PM, John Price <jprice@2-10.com> wrote:
>Perhaps I'm not looking closely enough at modern alum/carbon frames but the
>details of the past's lugged steel frames definitely catch my eye and show
>more variety.
Well lets look at it again just with the Italian high end. We still have lugged steel bikes coming over as has been discussed earlier today. We also have tig welded frames and bonded frames to add to brazed. To the steel we add aluminum, titanium, and carbon. Now take these methods and materials and mix them in various ways and combinations. Looking at just the tubing there has never in the past has there been such a variety of shapes, profiles, and compositions. I assure you if you took 10 bikes top end from Italian builders of 1982 and placed them with 10 top end bikes from Italian builders of 2002 you would notice that the variety has increased dramatically. People that don't know sculpture may not know any difference between Charles Russell and Henry Moore but when you see them next to each other you know. Just because something isn't your cup of tea doesn't make it bad.
enjoy,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA