Originally Posted by
13ollocks
you’re not a young man🙄
Correct.
Originally Posted by
13ollocks
LS and Seven cater to different price points at different production volumes. I’m maintaining that, for what I need from a bike, there’s nothing wrong with Litespeed frames that would warrant the significant price increase for a Seven. Will a Seven ride any better than an LS? I doubt it, unless you need and pay for custom. Are they prettier? Sure. Are they any better built? No reason to believe one way or another - both firms know how to fabricate Ti.
I agree with most of this, and appreciate that you are framing it in terms of what
you need from the bike. I've got a couple bikes like that, too -- I didn't want something fancy and expensive for those bikes' intended purposes. However, I do think that even an off-the-shelf Seven (they do build those now) will ride better and be built better than a ti frame that costs half as much money. Whether either of us would be able to discern much difference in day-to-day use is debatable.