Re: [CR]Re: measuring stay lengths

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

To: josephbstarck@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:53:41 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: measuring stay lengths
From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

snipped; Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com> writes:
> Prefacing your plea with, "one guy can't tell us if
> he's designing, building, or measuring a bicycle, and
> another guy no longer does any of it," is as muddling
> as the muddle you gave to Richard Cielec earlier, that
> he can't measure chainstay length.

1) he asked how it was measured. 2) i replied that it was a virtual centerline and 3) it couldn't be measured, meaning... 4) by a lay person such as he is.

if you can't measure it exactly as it was blueprinted, what is the point of obsessing about measuring it at all?
e-RICHIE
chester, ct