actually thinking about it, i dont have my recipt. pat normally sends it in a letter with a sticker or two. i ever had that. oh crap that could makes this all much harder.but the thing that gets me the bail was not a hard bail. and it did all that ! ! !
I think companies have reached the limit of weight reduction.
yeah it was in a vice when i built it up. i held it there when i was installing the cranks which were a bastard. i forgot how hard profiles are to install when new
These new tubes are not more stronger, simply the tubes have more toughness to the fragile fracture, but these can bend easily if the thickness and/or O.D is not sufficient to support to the concentrated efforts in some zones.