chainstay bridge?

[devlin]

Just my $.02

Dave

That's worth waaaaaaay more than $0.02c

It would have to be at least a buck forty!

[Pi Guy]

Finally reporting back. I thought about not taking the time to add a CS bridge after Dave Anderson's thorough post but decided it would be a worthwhile experiment anyway. So, I rode the frame I built earlier this summer raw and without a CS bridge for about 650 miles. I have since added a CS bridge, painted it (see pic below), and ridden about 150 miles more so far. Sometimes I think I can feel a difference, sometimes I think I can't. Thanks to my highly scientific experiment I conclude that it's a wash...not that you all needed my input to figure that out!

[ftwelder]

This conversation drifted from a lugged frame to use of other materials and techniques.

If you are TIG welding a frame from anything but very large chain stays you are really not taking advantage of a very simple and cost effective method for controlling the virtues of your frame. A bridge does make a difference and it's easy to measure the difference during construction.