kleinrenzo":w3v3hghq said:
As well as the carbon fiber strips in the headset it doesn't make any sense to me why??
You use a 35mm tube and then squeeze it to 32mm or so to fit a smaller seatpost, gives more stress to the already fragile area of the frame, or is there a pipe welded or soldered in in the original seattube, looks like you can see a small weld where it gets narrower?
As to the carbon strip I imagine it had something to do with stress concentrations due to welding thin wall aluminum in the headtube. I don't think that the Adroit had a thinner headtube than the Attitude, at least there is nothing in the literature to indicate that, so why on the Adroit?? Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the height (length) of the headtube was constant from Adroit to Attitude, but the Attitude had the larger down tube and possibly larger top tube putting the welds much closer together creating a thermal stress zone.
As for the post, I imagine that they wanted to use a larger diameter seat tube but there wasn't any seatpost to fit that size on the market. That's they started making their own posts in 1992 maybe?? So, they had to adapt to the 1 1/4 tube to house the 27.2 post. I'll examine it to see ho far the 1 1/4 sleeve goes into the 1 3/8 lower section.