No, and if they just increased the material strength without altering the geometry, your point stands for their product. It's just not how the mainstream bicycle industry works.
But your comment was easily open to the interpretation that heat treatment was some magical get out of gaol free card without regard to other aspects of design, and I wouldn't want anybody to go away with that impression
No, and if they just increased the material strength without altering the geometry, your point stands for their product. It's just not how the mainstream bicycle industry works.