I just saw the coolest frame ever. The only distinguishing part of this bike was that the seatstay crossed right above the back tire?? If anyone knows what kind of frame this is please let me know.

You mean the seatstay crosses the seat tube and joins the top tube several cm in front of the seatpost, approximately parallel to the down tube??

I remember seeing some of these designs in the late 80's, supposedly added some stiffness....but the trend never caught on. I believe they were generally marketed as TT or Tri bikes, I even remember Nashbar was selling them for a couple of years.

Those are often called "Hellenic" stays and were used a long time ago by Hetchins in England. They also appeared in the 80's on the Colnago Master "Equalateral" and on some Raleigh pro team bikes, as well as some GT frames in the 90's. However, I suspect the OP is referring to something else, but I think we need a little better "word picture" to suss it out, especially if a picture-picture is not forthcoming.

Is this what we're talking about?

How does that match the OP's description of the seatstay crossing right above the back tire?

I think he may be talking about how the traditional seat stay ends at the brake bridge and its just a single tube running up to the seat lug. Zunow had a frame like this in the 80's. There were some old balloon tire bikes made like this since the 30s. Its done fairly often now-adays too actually on road bikes.

how about some artsy-fartsy seatstay sillyiness for it's own sake?

wow....now that's one sexy rear triangle!

OMG, I'm in love. What's her name?

Whitney Moyer

That second picture (the three) thats it. I rode behind it for two blocks but then he turned. This was much easer than hopping I would run into him again. Thanks!

PS I am a huge fan of the 90's GT track frames (usa and imported) also the frames they use for that short track racing in England.

See that? It's amazing what you can learn from BF. Much better than "bicycling" magazine....which used to be a halfway decent publication back in the 80's but now is just a rag.

Doug
1986 Alpine