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When I see bikes like this I always think what is wrong with a normal double-triangle frame?

Also what's the point in having such a low standover with such a high seatpost? Even though it's a thomson, that things going to bend.

In defence of some of the bends, it's a 29er, so it probably needs a bent seat tube to get the chainstays short, and the fact that it's a niner probably justifies the dropped top tube too, as 'nad damage is likely without it.

You're right that laying a long Thomson back at that angle is asking for trouble, it would have been better to have extended the seat tube further and run straight seat stays right up to the seat clamp.