One of my favorite things about these "CONFLICT!" articles is that they're written blind - I have no idea what arguments Andrew is going to employ... on the internet about any topic once. So here's my impassioned (but also logical) argument for why I vastly prefer bikes with seat tubes that are 34.9 mm in diameter vs. those with 31.6 or, even worse, 30.9 mm openings.
The short version... frame, I want it to be able to fit any post.
Beyond the compatibility argument, there's a simple engineering angle in play here... tube diameter standards, and that was, generally, ok. Seatposts were simple and affordable, they didn't have any moving parts, and while you could purchase more expensive ones...matter who made the post your saddle rested upon.
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