Re: [CR] Frame Flex Testing

(Example: Production Builders:Tonard)

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:25:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Raymond Dobbins <raydobbins2003@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Frame Flex Testing
To: gpvb1@comcast.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <092920051502.22076.433C0213000275BD0000563C2202888744CE0D909F09@comcast.net>


-- gpvb1@comcast.net wrote:
> Uh, a frame's vertical compliance doesn't matter in your opinion?
> Ever ride of of them early Cannondale things? They will pound you
> into a pulp, IMO, over long distances. Way too stiff vertically.

i did ride one of those beer cans, and it was punishing. what i don't know is whether that was a function of the vertical stiffidity :) or lack or vibration dampening properties. i think i remember feeling every ripple in the asphalt, no matter how miniscule - every road felt like washboard to some degree. it could have been a combination of both things of course.

ray dobbins
miami florida