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Old 04-17-2004, 09:35 PM
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Chris,

I put a few pics of my frame in my gallery, you can check them out there. Sorry, but I don't have any of the round tube chassis.

A round tube chassis is "supposedly" stronger than an equivalent wall thickness rect tube. I guarantee that you will not have to worry about strength in this chassis.

As Bob pointed out to me, the rect tube is a little easier to add brackets, bolt holes, etc to mount various hardware. It has turned out handier I'd say.

I visited both Shell Valley and Midstates before I decided (an easier thing to do these days... ) and thought that the Midstates looked like a stronger chassis - the SV seemed just fine but the MS met the "eyeball" test.

I'm biased, but I'd buy the rect tube from Midstates....
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