Originally Posted by
MassiveD
How is that a problem? TIG welding is basically superior to either fillet, or lugs, though personal preferences for those methods are perfectly reasonable. Composite is a whole other thing, though can't really be easily compared if the makers let their freak fly. Pretty hard to do one-off custom in composite, but for mass market it seems reasonably efficient.
How do you define "superior"? I think you'd get a lot of debate about what is or isn't better. Along the lines of "how do you want your frame to likely fail". I also think Crumpton and Calfee, among others, would say otherwise WRT custom composite. Andy.