Don Wilson asked:
Would someone tell me what the unusual frame design of
the Viking Tracker was supposed to accomplish and if
it accomplished it? Here is a link to one on the CR
web site?
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Well, Don, there are better engineers on this list, but few who are more, shall we say, cynical. I'd point out several advantages of this unique design:
1) Readily identifiable at a great distance. Clearly identifies owner as a person of more means than thoughtfullness. 2) Adds mass to the frame, and labor to its construction. Wait, are these advantages? 3) Most important, it allows the chain to be removed w/o a master link, since the chainstay doesn't intersect the plane of the chain which in the main as I explain in this vein stays plain. Yuck. Sometimes I disgust even myself.
harvey sachs
mcLean va.