Re: [CR] Bikini lugs, cracking the head tube

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PX-10LE)

From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:56:29 EST
Subject: Re: [CR] Bikini lugs, cracking the head tube
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 12/1/06 5:03:49 PM, haxixe@gmail.com writes:
>Wasn't the list told a year or two back that lugs perform no real signifiant
>structural function once a frame has been built up and they were essentially
>used only to facilitate building it up? I can't find the conversation,
>but
>I seem to remember a consensus to that effect.
>
> Actually around the head tube they do perform a function. Lugless frames use heavier head tubes than lugged. Phil Brown Good heat control tioday in San Rafael, Calif.