It’s a bizarre divide. There’s all these companies celebrating things that qualify as either “no shit” or “who cares” and then there’s companies that do something a certain way because it’s their standard and don’t say anything about it.
My favourite example is from the pre-Trek Bontrager frame shop and comes from a former boss who went there to see the production line. They had a guy rolling steel tubes on a perfectly flat surface and marking the high spot so any flex would be in the optimum plane. Does that make ANY difference in a double triangle frame? I doubt it. But I think it speaks to a general persnicketiness that increased costs and quality for their frames.
March 14, 2022, 2:46 p.m. - Andrew Major
It’s a bizarre divide. There’s all these companies celebrating things that qualify as either “no shit” or “who cares” and then there’s companies that do something a certain way because it’s their standard and don’t say anything about it. My favourite example is from the pre-Trek Bontrager frame shop and comes from a former boss who went there to see the production line. They had a guy rolling steel tubes on a perfectly flat surface and marking the high spot so any flex would be in the optimum plane. Does that make ANY difference in a double triangle frame? I doubt it. But I think it speaks to a general persnicketiness that increased costs and quality for their frames.