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  • oval at the BB shell, which makes sense

    It makes some kind of sense, although I wonder whether the real reason for it isn't just to make the welding easier rather than the "laterally stiff vertically compliant" marketing justification usually applied to that design feature. After all these years it's the signature style of the PreCursa, so they're probably not going to change it now

  • makes the side profile of the tube larger so they can print their name bigger

    They need to learn from the masters🙂

  • I'm sure someone once told be that Mike Burrows told them that that was the real reason for large downtubes.

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