On Aug 29, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Mark Stonich wrote:
> It's all a mater of perspective. To those of us with short limbs,
> long torsos and bad backs, for whom Technomics are barely tall enough,
> those lugs are beautiful.
>
Mark, nobody fits those specs more than I-I'm 6'3" but wear 32" inseam pants. I have a very long torso, a very sore back, my personal bikes measure 61x61 and yet I don't have to resort to the extended head tube. Yes, I don't have a lot of clearance over the top tube but the family jewels are still alive and kicking. So the extended head tube isn't really necessary but has become, in my mind, like much of cycling, a fashion statement. Don't get me wrong, one look at my bikes will tell you that I'm a slave to my own fashion sense but I still don't like the extended hear tube. I would certainly prefer that the new extended head tube lugs were made in such a way that the extension could be cut off but they aren't. Phil Brown Off the soapbox in Oakland, Calif.