Originally Posted by
well biked
if you're going with steel, I'd go with lugged frame construction. Much more aesthetically pleasing in my opinion-
I like the look of lugs too, but they are there largely because welding thin steel is difficult, not because they're prettier. Overheat the area around the weld and it tends to crack. Modern steels like Nivacrom (Columbus) go a long way toward solving that problem. And lugs add weight.
OTOH:
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Last edited by DMF; 08-24-07 at 02:37 PM.