On 02/18/2014 10:13 AM, Shaun Meehan wrote:
Agreed. And we might as well start referring to the "traditional"
diameter tubung as "undersized" tubing.
Shaun Meehan
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery
<thill....@gmail.com <mailto:thill....@gmail.com>> wrote:
It's been 20+ years since "oversized" tubing became the usual size
of tubing. Almost nobody uses the old sizes of tubing anymore. I
move that two decades is enough that we can start just referring
to the formerly oversized tubing as "tubing" or "standard-size
tubing" or whatever term makes it sound like the normal thing,
which it is.
I have no idea where Jim gets the idea that there's any derision in the
term "oversize" never mind why derision should be directed at
traditional diameter tubing. But there's an excellent reason to leave
things as they are: if you shift everything down one, then what some are
calling "over-oversize" or "Uber-oversize" would be come "oversize" as
"oversize" becomes "standard" and you and Jim would still sense derision
when the term "oversize" is used and nobody would have any idea whether
you were talking about OS or UOS.
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