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Old July 12th 18, 05:03 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Frank Krygowski[_4_]
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On 7/11/2018 11:16 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
.... If they break at the same
tension, then I'll declare the Rivnuts are safe to use. If there's a
substantial difference in tension, then I'll declare the Rivnuts
weaken the frame.


Note that your two stated possibilities are not mutually exclusive.

Your logic is a sort of mirror image of the fallacy applied to all sorts
of weird bicycling schemes:

"This makes bicycling a bit safer [or at least, we think so], so
everybody should use it."

And in its worst version: "We must make it mandatory."

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