RE: [CR]Was: intro... now: frame geometry

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Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:41:25 -0700
To: "Ken Freeman" <freesound@comcast.net>, "'ternst'" <ternst1@cox.net>, <damann@mitre.org>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <oroboyz@aol.com>
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: [CR]Was: intro... now: frame geometry


At 11:59 PM -0400 5/20/07, Ken Freeman wrote:
>Jan if you trace back through the thread, no assertion was made that
>chainstay is a critical aspect of handling. How to measure chainstay was
>the question.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to respond to a question with the second part of my post, just adding something new to the discussion. Perhaps I should have saved it for a separate thread. I never implied to say that anybody claimed that chainstay length was the determinant of bicycle handling. If my message came across as such, I apologize.

Jan Heine
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