Originally Posted by schnee
As a new owner of the much-maligned Bowery, I think sloping top tubes are spiffy. They look aggressive and modern. Horizontal top tubes are functionally inferior to sloping ones, so hanging on to them for basically aesthetic reasons is... quaint.*
It's much like those Harley riders who pay all that extra money for an engine that's so poorly designed, it literally shakes itself apart over time. It also gets 75% of the power of comparable engines with different strokes. Why do folks keep riding Harleys? Adherence to 'tradition', and a smidge of 'it sounds cool'.
* This is my first post in the SS forums, so in keeping with the way everyone else seems to talk to each other here, I've added a gratuitous troll. Feel free to hurl whatever insults you want, because I'm 100% hipster-proof.
not trying to be a pain in the ass, but how are horizontal top tubes functionally inferior? are we talking stiffness here? and would it even matter to someone like me who never races his bike aside from the occasional alleycat?