I had a similar conversation with a guy who did a lot of the frame design and materials research at Raleigh Cycles in England, the legendary Gerald O’Donovan.
I Mentioned something similar, about resurrecting an older frame material. He shut me down immediately, saying, “Then what was the point of all the subsequent work an development in newer materials?”
The point? It really makes more sense to preserve what’s really good, but upgrade with newer materials the things that, at the time, turned out in retrospect not to be so fantastic.
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