I am the proud owner of four bicycles – the acceptable minimum for any civilised human being. All but one of those bikes has round tubes for the main triangle on the frame, and that’s no accident. That’s the way I like it. That’s the way it should be because the round tube is the best tube.
Nature has proved it. Take a look at bamboo – Nature’s scaffolding pole – which is round in cross-section. Millions of years of evolution haven’t seen