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Supposed to be, and they probably are stiffer than a frame made with the normal number of the same guage tubes. Of course, you could make something even stiffer and lighter by building a conventional frame from slightly over sized tubes, but we would have to wait some 50 years between the invention of the 'Flying Gate' and the ubiquitous use of oversized tubes.