Originally Posted by
cxwrench
I'm not sure I understand your point?
Just confirming what you said in bold here:
Originally Posted by
cxwrench
Back when I worked for Kodak/Sierra Nevada the Healthnet guys rode Giant TCX frames. Some of the guys definitely complained about their frames losing stiffness over the season. A guy I know that worked for Schwinn (I think) at the time took a new frame and an old frame to a facility that they had in CO and checked the frames on a rig they used. As the story goes the old frame was around 20% more flexible in certain areas compared to the new frame. These days I'd say that's not possible unless some major mistakes are made.
I take it you were implying that carbon is better quality these days which might explain why my 2014 Synapse Carbon at 16K miles is as stiff as it was new. At the time, I didn't connect the 2007 Pilot frame being flexy as something that happened with age and mileage.