If I might try to paraphrase; given today's building methods, lugs are ornamentation. Ornamentation satisfies a need too, and like good architecture, it is uplifting to the human spirit. Bad ornamentation is worse than no ornamentation, eating dinner out of coffee cans is better than off of plastic plates with a big sunflower in the middle.
Fillet brazing is also an 'ornamental' method?
Dennis Young Hotaka, Japan
BobHoveyGa@aol.com wrote: "And I have no problem seeing modern technology in this form come together with the fine craftsmanship of a lugged frame, even when the guys at my local bike shop roll their eyes and repeat their arguments that lugs are not necessary to produce a strong and functional frame. I can't agree with that..."
> don't you mean that only "some lugs..." give you this feeling
> rather than "all lugs"? since this is a lug-centric issue, i
> will add that i think the shop rats are correct. i'd rather
> have a modern tigged frame done well than a modern frame that
> had pipes joined with lugs if the builder chose lugs just for
> the sake of it. we don't need more mediocrity just for nostalgia's
> sake. i see that as the issue. lugs don't equal (i can't say
> it here) unless the builder pays attention.
> e-RICHIE
> chester, ct
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