A Muzi [email hidden] wrote: << I wrote some snitty comments about Columbus MS tube, based on
my Columbus book of the era - I has always noticed it listed there as significantly lighter but at
thicker gauge than the nearby SL tube.
Thanks to a link provided here I, for the first time, understood that MS tube is smaller diameter
and so might indeed be both thicker and lighter (I've never seen, sold or ridden one) I assumed
incorrectly and jumped to conclusions. >>
Wouldn't characterize your comments as snitty; I doubt anyone here was offended. MS is one of the
more esoteric and misunderstood Columbus tubesets. I never rode it, but I recall a friend's
Tommasini from around 1990. It was a bizarro frame, with one triangular chainstay and one round one,
sort of a mishmash of pulled and squeezed tubes. Of course, this kind of thing is common today.
Probably never caught on with builders because the bottom bracket, lugs, etc. were proprietary to
the tubeset. Basso made a cool-looking frame from it, though (the Ascot?), the one that was painted
two-tone mint green and blood orange.
