[CR]No more DeRosas : they all broke ?!?!

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 11:41:22 -0800 (PST)
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]No more DeRosas : they all broke ?!?!

Do you wonder if perhaps the reason why the early 1970's SLX DeRosas are so rare, is because these framesets have all broken ??

http://www.damonrinard.com/EFBe/frame_fatigue_test.htm

Quite possibly - after all, the DeRosa in this fatigue-limit test performed the worst out of 20 bikes !! And will we be stuck with TREK OCLV frames for a long, long, long time because apparently they are balanced in a way that allows them to survive many fatigue cycles ??

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA