Originally Posted by
unterhausen
everyone else has trouble with construction details like that, so unless he's hiding some structure I assume these frames have a limited lifetime. OTOH, Bike Friday has very similar construction and few issues, so maybe I'm wrong. Of course, limited lifetime in this case might be 10 years instead of 50, who knows?
As you know, Rob worked for Bike Friday, and has an engineering background, and he seems to make big and rugged use bikes that way. Also, the wall thicknesses I saw were thin, so whatever his numbers are telling him, he could have make them beefier.