Originally Posted by
mkeller234
I've noticed that my KOM has really beefy tapered seat stays, it looks like most of the bikes here share that feature. Is that common for Mercian frames?
I don't know, but I also noticed that the full Reynolds 531 DB frameset is not as light as either of my other 531 DB framesets (one of which is metric French, which explains that one, but not the other, which is British). Is that extra weight accounted for by the stays? I don't know.