Thoroughly enjoyed this.
It was great to chat bike shit with some of you chaps, buy more crap valuable investments to clutter up my garage & perv some awsome bikes.
Big thanks to Mike for setting this up. 👍
I have done the same as August Bicycles and never had an issue. I took it a little further & also drilled 4mm holes every 90 degrees in the steer tube either side of the join & welded the sleeve to the steer tube at each of these holes so even if the butt joint failed there is a bit of a fail...
Torsional stiffness is where efficiency stems from, vertical stiffness or lack of is where comfort is.
Sod the UCI, beam/cruciform is where it's at for carbon. Maybe then we can have both (and f'ing huge logos).