USPS TREK bikes really just "stock" frames????

On 15 Jul 2004 17:36:52 -0700,
(Chalo) wrote:

Ryan Cousineau wrote:

Anyone else used the OLN factoids to compare themselves to their
favourite riders? Tyler Hamilton is 5'6", 146 pounds or some such.
...
Virenque is 5'9" and less than 140.

I could put one in each leg of my pants, as long as I wasn't wearing
them at the time.

Chalo Colina

Dear Chalo,

Koala Kolina, the Marsupial Mountain Biker!

A friend near Seattle wrote to me earlier this week about a
fellow who came to his home to pick up a motorcycle
sprocket sold on eBay.

When my friend's wife answered the door, she asked why the
fellow was wearing an odd bulging pouch around his neck, a
pouch possibly made out of a pair of old pants.

He explained that the pouch contained his baby wallaby and
obligingly displayed it for her to admire. (I'm only
surprised that she remembered to get the money for the
sprocket.)

Carl Fogel

On 11 Jul 2004 14:37:21 -0700, Benjamin Weiner
wrote:

dianne_1234 wrote:

Nothing; it's just a hypothetical example. Maybe Roberto really needed
a longer top tube, or maybe he didn't and some other rider did.

The point is, with a little planning and preparation it shouldn't be
too hard to fudge the dimensions a few millimeters when bonding the
frame together. No new lugs, and maybe just selecting tubes or cutting
them a little longer or shorter.

With a frame where tubes and lugs are completely distinct
and just bonded together that could be possible

OCLV frames are tubes + lugs.

On 11 Jul 2004 14:37:21 -0700, Benjamin Weiner
wrote:

dianne_1234 wrote:

Nothing; it's just a hypothetical example. Maybe Roberto really needed
a longer top tube, or maybe he didn't and some other rider did.

The point is, with a little planning and preparation it shouldn't be
too hard to fudge the dimensions a few millimeters when bonding the
frame together. No new lugs, and maybe just selecting tubes or cutting
them a little longer or shorter.

With a frame where tubes and lugs are completely distinct
and just bonded together that could be possible

OCLV frames are tubes + lugs.