Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>
> Steve Maas wrote:
> >
> (snip... about the test)
> > To me, this is sloppy work, decorated with sloppy thinking.
>
> Steve, reading your conclusion above makes me wonder why you wrote your
> original question:
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> "Do you wonder if perhaps the reason why the early 1970's SLX DeRosas
> are so rare, is because these framesets have all broken ??
> 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 ??"
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>
> Reads pretty much like a troll? Or perhaps the emoticon was missing?
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California
It has been pointed out to me that the original post was Don Gilles's and not Steve Mass's. Excuse me...
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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