I think that may be one of the misconceptions about Rivendells and Grant has even made comments that support this. Rivendell's use expensive tube sets because who would buy a $2000 frame knowing it had plain ole' 4130 cro-mo? People expect fancy steel in a frame that expensive. However, since bikes like the Bombadil and Hunaqapillar may have 1+mm tubing (straight or butted...who knows?) and the Atlantis has 9/6/9 tubes, there may not be that much benefit to the expensive tubes. My understanding is that the benefit of expensive tubes is high quality steel that allows the builder to use less of it and produce a higher performance bike. The heavier Riv's don't seem to be designed to take advantage of this. The Roadeo and maybe the AHH may be a different story and they may benefit tremendously from better tubing.
There's probably more to the story when you get into the fine details of all parts of the frame but overall, I think the above is accurate. On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 12:24:50 AM UTC-6, drew beckmeyer wrote: > > really? straight gauge? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
