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jest emanating from place of dark jealousy
I inhabit this joyous realm, no need to apologise, but please do store away a small mount of residual guilt.
The rear spacing is 130mm because the Royce hub was 130, cheap and fancy. I went for the stays for a few of reasons.
- This is the other half of my track bike, which also has 'normal' seat stays (but is 120mm spaced), so it matches that, sort of.
- Weight is and isn't a factor, ( @Colm89 isn't joking at all, the glass house living bastard) I'm 15-16st, depending on lunch, and even though I'm sure a wishbone would have been perfectly adequate, the 'normal' stays are perceived to add stiffness.
- Both bikes use tubes that were 'inherited' from Roberts, the seat stays are some of those tubes.
- I don't really like the wishbone stays.
In short, I'm fat, have old fashioned views on bike design and hopefully adds fuel to the fire of your fellow countrymen who troll @coldharbour about his wishbone specific liability insurance.......
- This is the other half of my track bike, which also has 'normal' seat stays (but is 120mm spaced), so it matches that, sort of.
Ecobeard
@Ecobeard question for you - is there a reason you didn't go for the wishbone stay, yours looks like a standard two pronged "thingy". Is it because of 120mm rear spacing? Imagine for a moment I know virtually nothing about frame building.
This is also a great chance to clarify that I think your new bike is absolutely lovely and any previous guff you may have received from me was mere jest emanating from place of dark jealousy.