Re: New Cervelo Model


amit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This is the new Cervelo model :

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2006/feb06/hetvolk06/index.php?id=live/DSC02027

from what I've heard the seatstays contribute very little to the
structure. the chainstays and seatube are strong enough that the bike
would be ridable without seatstays.

-Amit

I had a conversation w/ a local yet prominent framebuilder in CO,
regarding the use of carbon stays on otherwise non-carbon bikes. He
said that the reason no one expressed concerns over the potential for
bad glue jobs is that there's almost no stress on the seatstays and
therefore the junction doesn't have to be that strong.

It should follow that w/ sufficiently strong chainstays, the seatstays
are even less necessary if not completely superfluous.

.

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