Originally Posted by
sapporoguy
Our Speedster, too, has a diagonal, and I've been curious about whether the new versions without diagonal don't sacrifice something.
It wouldn't be my thinking that a front line company like Co-motion has used the intervening years between the lateral tube framesets and the current compact framesets to deprive new owners of any parameter of performance! If not an actual improvement in stiffness and/or power transfer (unlikely), I would expect at least an improvement in all up weight. Given what people pay to reduce weight by grams, what should the expectation be when the weight savings are in the kilograms?! I'm not at all saying you need to trade out your rig for something newer, but I doubt you need to worry much about current customers.