Re:
Didn't he call 80's Cannondales 'billboards' too?
I really like this article - TR is a cool guy and it looks like he opens up a bit in his answers here - but I also have a soft spot for early Cannondales.
Is there really that much difference between jigging, welding and filing an aluminium frame and jigging, brazing and filing a steel frame? How did Cannondale do it for $25 a frame, built in the US?
Appreciate that it was a marketing coup to use the same frame, big stickers, and then just hang different components on it. But arguably, if that frame rides superbly, then why bother with minute variations in frame spec? The low end models become a super bargain, rather than the top-end ones being a con.