Originally Posted by
Captain Blight
In a slightly less "art for art's sake" vein, the people at Santana are doing interesting things by aggressively "drilling" Ti tube then reinforcing with crabon fribe.
Hollands (no relation) does that too, a sort of "net" of Ti around cf tubes. Cool stuff. Then again, isotruss systems in a bike application? No thanks. For riding this frame may be fine, but in anisotropic loading, like leaning against a pole, or falling on a bottle/stone/curb this looks scary to me.