That’s fair enough trail rat, if you know better.
I just prefer to take the approach of assuming that the designer with the Engineering background that designs and makes bike frames knows more about it than me, and I’m happy to be proved wrong if all their frames start falling apart at the gussets, I’ll let you know if mine does.
You also seemed pretty dismissive of Pauls racing background too, without bothering to do 5mins research…
Having doubts and questions is good and healthy, and nobody is going to get things 100% right first time, but it just seems there’s a lot of poo-pooing going on when there should really be more support for grass-roots UK builders like this.
Were you just as cynical when Pace, Hope, Orange, X-Lite, USE, Curtis, Demon etc started building things in sheds?
I like what they’re doing, and I like the way they’re trying to do it, for that reason I support them, I’m sure they’ll make mistakes, and subsequently make better bikes because of it, but we should be supporting people like this!
If you haven’t been before then I can heartily recommend going to Bespoked Bristol to see what other stuff is coming from small UK builders at the moment!