Originally Posted by
Scooper
I know Ben pioneered oval cross section tubing, but when did he start using seat tubes that flared at the BB shell?
by '87 for sure...
(anecdotal story: in '87 during a century I was drafting behind a guy with a Serotta, who was riding with a group of people with high $ italian steel. Couldn't help to notice the thing and in my ignorance I thought that there was something wrong with the bike and the guy might bite the dust... Next water/banana/orange stopover I asked him about it and he said that it was part of the design...)