Unless the whole thing is solid or internally butted which then surely negates any weight cost
Transverse oval tube brazed in to bridge across the cut outs. If you were ship building, it might be worth making the structure complex to improve stiffness/weight, but at the scale of a cycle tube it's much better just to vary the wall thickness and, if you're trying to make it anisotropic, tube shape.
Transverse oval tube brazed in to bridge across the cut outs. If you were ship building, it might be worth making the structure complex to improve stiffness/weight, but at the scale of a cycle tube it's much better just to vary the wall thickness and, if you're trying to make it anisotropic, tube shape.