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ye i just figured that out and edited the post

it is fine unless it is ridiculously tight/thin walled/carbon

Cool, thats what i thought. If the frame is steel it "should" be bloody strong.

He's worried you might squash the frame with the workstand clamp.

Ah ok, i was thinking he meant the whole seatube was going to bend!

I always put lots of padding on the clamp and don't do it up too tight.

almost done stripping the pain from the pearson. gonna leave the lugs red and the tubes bare until i can afford a nice paint job complete with chrome fork crown, front lugs, stays and dropouts.

just picked up some a cinelli stem and some criteriums, along with some campy cranks

Still cant believe I sold that fucking frame!!!

What about our friend Rusty? I think he'd like those bare tubes. And his ginger hair don't go with red.

Still cant believe I sold that fucking frame!!!

im glad you did, i love it to bits, its so much fun to ride.

What about our friend Rusty? I think he'd like those bare tubes. And his ginger hair don't go with red.

wtf?

Old school steel tubes are quite crush resistant, with a ratio of diameter:wall thickness of about 35 for the thin bit in the middle of a 531 seat tube. Some oversized aluminium tubes have a ratio of over 50, an aluminium soft drink can has a ratio of about 200.

Crane: Fuck sake man. Rust. Bare tubes. English weather. Rust. Aside from the downside to having a rusty frame it will also look crap with the red lugs.

Crane: Fuck sake man. Rust. Bare tubes. English weather. Rust. Aside from the downside to having a rusty frame it will also look crap with the red lugs.

its going to be my fair weather bike, it'll only see sunshine and minimal wind

apart from the stem, nice. Very nice.

Doesn't take much to keep it rust-free though (beside the obviously clearcoat).

i'm sorry, but what's wrong with them stem? ^^ isn't it a bit too shiny on a pic to tell already? thou i prefer one gear, the bike looks great!

apart from the stem, nice. Very nice.

Grammo is appropriate for that build, as it was Cinelli's top of the range in the C-Record era.

Oooooooh that Pearson is nice, damn tight.

Grammo is appropriate for that build, as it was Cinelli's top of the range in the C-Record era.

I know.
But I hate it. Its fugly to the max, along with a plethora of other stems from around that time.

Oooooooh that Pearson is nice, damn tight.

thanks you, but remember there's no headset in it, and also remember those are 700 x 19 tyres!

thanks.

the grammo is ok. i have a pantographed pagani stem that was planning to use on this build but it was a little too long.

I know.
But I hate it. Its fugly to the max, along with a plethora of other stems from around that time.

plethora must be your new word this week no?

Word of the past few months. I like Cacophony too, but not as much.

what about cornucopia?

Its fugly to the max, along with a plethora of other stems from around that time.

Opinion varies. I like the Grammo. It's obviously doesn't have the streamlined elegance of a 1R, but it's porn the way Ti frames are porn.

Perhaps you can give us half a dozen examples from the plethora of contemporaneous stems which you find unacceptable, so that nobody makes any further aesthetic blunders.

Perhaps you can give us half a dozen examples from the plethora of contemporaneous stems which you find unacceptable, so that nobody makes any further aesthetic blunders.

we're waiting ;)

But I was giving my opinion on how it looks. Or is that unacceptable now?

And I don't like any quill where the horizontally bit is more or less a triangle (big at the frame end and little at the bar end), particularly when there is a gawd awful weld. In fact, and quill that is heavy looking or very bulky isn't my cup of tea. Not that that means you can't like them if you want, although you will be wrong in doing so :P

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