Originally Posted by
LV2TNDM
No need to apologize for the thread drift, but feel free to apologize for the picture of the clamped top tube! OMG, I cannot believe someone would clamp a beautiful vintage/custom bike by anything but the seat post. And such luscious paint, too! And when the seat post is a thing of beauty? You insert, tighten and clamp the DUMMY SEATPOST.
I'm sorry, but this is an outrage!
Calm down, there's no one on earth more qualified to pamper a top-flight bike than Dale Brown.
Rules like the ones you state are good to hammer into newbs, but when you get the master level as Dale did decades ago, rules don't apply to you anymore.