To reiterate: All steel is essentially the same in its "stiffness" aka modulus of elasticity from gaspipe to the most exotic, thus all else being equal the "feel" of the ride will be the same for all types of tubesets.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA
On 12/2/05, P.C. Kohler <kohl57@starpower.net> wrote:
>
> Well all the engineering stuff here passes over this history major's head
> with a "whoosh"!
>
> But if 753 is that thin "in the middle" of a double-butted tube, I would
> think it would FLEX more than other tubing. And judging just from the rid
e
> of my '80 Raleigh Team Pro, it's anything but stiff even with true racing
> geometry. It's hard to define the feeling (too much of a guilty pleasure
> perhaps!) but it feels wonderfully resilient if that's the word. Simple
> fabulous riding machine.
>
> But it ain't stiff.
>
> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA
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