j.mccoin@comcast.net wrote:
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> I have seen people test the stiffness of frames for years by putting one foot on a pedal in the 12 O'Clock position and pushing on it. I have tried to explain that all they are seeing is how much air is in their tires.
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> There are still a lot myths and foolishness in our hobby, I think the one about frames going soft is one of the silliest, Chucks description a few years ago, of a pile of discarded Merckx's frames rusting away in a field because they had gone soft, was quite a parody of this foolishness.
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> Jim McCoin
> Fremont Ca.
======================================================================== Ah yessss... I remember a trip to sunny Italy in the seventies and a highly anticipated visit to Molteni Arcore. Out behind the warehouse that housed the team bike spares, etc. (you should have seen the shelves of wool jerseys with one entire shelf of Molteni jerseys with the worlds bands on the collar and sleeves reserved for Eddy himself)... anyway out behind the warehouse was this field of waist high weeds, and in the middle of this field was a big soggy mound of all these orange painted bike frames, the steel tubes of which were reduced to so much limp pasta by the herculean efforts of Eddy and his domestics in the previous season's races.
Chuck "huh?" Schmidt SoPas, SoCal ========================================================================
"...fishing the past, from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth." --Kurt Vonnegut
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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