Originally Posted by jock
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If I had 4k to spend on a frame? Titanium.
If I was feeling the cutting edge just wasn't cutting enough? Reynolds 953.
If I was a pure racing idiot that just wanted light and stiff? Scandium.
On a budget and just want something custom, but trusty? Columbus Life."
I think I'll frame that. It's only been about 20000 posts of mostly facile diatribe on TAT and finally we get a true glimpse of what's
really going on inside the head of the master framemaker!
Fortunately I don't have 4k to spend on a frame, aren't a racing idiot, or a 'master framemaker'. I'm a daydreaming Industrial Designer squandering my talents on something stupid like bikes when I probably should be designing supercars or toasters or things you hang from your mobile phone.
Honestly, maybe 5 people on this entire forum NEED something more than a 20lb lugged frame with Chorus. The rest of us will still be fat, slow, genetically non-freaky boffins regardless of what we're riding.
Still, my next roadie will either be Ti or 953!
Man, I haven't bonked or been on the vom-vom train since I was 19. (which was 2 years ago incidently *cough*)
Now I'm old and have a perfect solution - Don't ride so hard!