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I wonder if it will ever change
The main things holding back change are economics and sporting regulations. If there was a cheaper way to join all the bits of bike together in the desired arrangement and with adequate stiffness and strength, somebody would be doing it and making a killing. If there was a way of doing it which made cyclists faster, the UCI would ban it :-)
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Tijs
I get that he isn't trying to reinvent the bicycle frame, but it still strikes me as ironic he chose that as an example given how pretty much unchanged the modern diamond bicycle frame (geometry) has been for so many years. I wonder if it will ever change.