It's probably a way to use up regular length seatstay tubes when building extra-large frames. Unless the rider is a pro basketball player, there will still be a seat post inside the seat tube where the seatstays join to give the frame plenty of rigidity.
At 04:06 PM 7/31/06 -0700, Don Wilson wrote:
>Here's a modern builder dropping the seat stays a
>couple inches below the lug. Its beginning to look
>like you can attach stays where ever the heck you want
>without compromise in performance. I'm increasingly
>amazed that as precise and fine a machine as a good,
>handmade light weight bike is that it can have this
>much variance in seat stay contact point.
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John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
Woodstock, ON Canada