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just about anyone can feel the difference between large oversize steel tubes and small O/D 531 stovepipe.
the 'other manufacturers like Reynolds make both. Reynolds don't have a monopoly on small diameter butted tubes.
to dismiss columbus (or others) because you didn't like a bike built from oversize max/eom-16/spirit and liked a bike because of it's smaller O/D tubes that happens to be Reynolds is just ignorance, nobody can tell the difference if the tubes are identical in dimensions but different manufacturers steels.
taking your point of a view a Roberts built form his usual mis-match of tube manufacturers (chosen because he picks tubes on dimensions suited to the rider/intended use) is wrong and a better frame would result if only reynolds tubes are used. i wonder what he would say to that?
like refusing to eat real spagetti Bolognese when in italy because you tried a tin of Heinz spagetti once and didn't like it.