sawyer wrote:kgt wrote:By traditional I mean that it looks like many other contemporary frames.
I love this sentence
Anyway, I think you have an entirely legitimate question as to how Pinarello have got there through a slightly different route to Spesh, Scott etc, but you're hugely overstating the difference in the essential design elements, and inadvertently focussing - somewhat ironically - on different marketing strategies ...
That's my assumption more or less.
It seems that there are two completely different routes. Pinarello procceded through a 'fine tuning' of the shape and sections of the tubes while companies like Specialized, Scott or Cervelo have a more 'radical' approach to design.
I have not seen another (proved) aero frame that looks so much like a 'normal' frame other than the F8. It seems that the guys at Pinarello - and Jaguar - are the first to make it, that's why I find it so interesting.