William...

Thanks for the reply. If I misunderstood your post, I apologize. Like you said, it's all up to Thylacine to keep what he wants and chuck the rest. Speaking for myself, I really enjoy reading and learning about and experimenting with all things bicycle and am lucky enough to live in a city with lot's of builders and cool LBS's to talk to and learn from. Of course there's the net too (which is best used with some internal filtering I suppose). None of that however, makes me a bike designer/builder, but I do like to share the info I've collected with others because I only learn when someone else is willing to share their knowlege with me.... and I know your cool with that too.

Jim

PS my apologies for using the word "share" twice in this post ;-)