Originally Posted by
bulgie
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.
most of the time those clamps were set to 28.6 mm tubes, go to 26mm and much less likely to have an issue