Originally Posted by
tigrrrtamer
Your repeated insistence on trying to kill the term "criterium geometry", hammering it to death and threatening anyone who uses it of ridicule, is starting to look very much like a closed minded framebuilder who came here for some free exposure and publicity, but now has painted himself into a corner. You've made statements you won't back away from for obvious reasons, and you look concerned about your reputation. No one asked for, nor needed, your permission to use the term "criterium geometry", nor to have it recognized by you. It was used in the past, is being used again, and will be used in the future, whether you like it or not.
Do you work in Marketing? People in that profession love to "label" things and create categories for different types of products in order to create product differentiation.
Since you have made this personal...I'm not a professional frambuilder, just a garage builder. Most of the frames I've made have been for myself. The nice thing about being able to build frames is that it's easy and cheap to experiment with different geometry's and such...something I've done quite a bit of. I have personal experience with high/low BB's, long/short top tube, long/short trail, etc.
In my experience, changes in these frame characteristics are noticeable in subtle ways but are not worthy of creating a new frame classification for.
As a builder, if someone came to me and wanted a frame to race crits on, I'd tweak the geometry slightly to accommodate them. The changes would be small but I'd do it because that's what custom builders do (at least many of them do). If you want to label a frame like this a "Crit" frame, go ahead. What ever makes you happy. I can tell you that a frame like this will only be slightly different from a general road use frame I would build for that same person - guy most likely wouldn't even notice the difference.