The minute you clip in and start off, you subject your bike frame to remarkable stresses. Even cruising creates strong flexion, torsion, compression and tension forces on your frame. The type and intensity of force is different at every point on the frame. Our research into frame stress analysis (see images below) has given us tremendous insight into where these forces are concentrated and how they are applied. This data is an aphrodisiac to our engineers who dream of new ways to counter these stresses.

Using the data we compile throughout the critical testing process, they are continually exploring the ways that different tubing cross sections can counter the individual forces involved in riding. The more effectively they do their magic, the higher performance they can squeeze out of the tubing thus increasing the strength-to-weight ratio, thus reducing the amount of material needed to maintain the existing standards.

Recently, we have developed innovative Proprietary Forming Technology (P.F.T.) that has allowed our engineers to really get out there and achieve performance results that were never before possible on a production frame. The introduction of Geometrically Enhanced Tubing (or G.E.T.) a few years ago greatly improved our ability to do more with less. Now, we have taken that technology and pushed it way out of the existing envelope. We'd love to tell you how we do it, but we'd have to kill you.

Just be content to marvel at the results of our development. We proudly present the P.F.T. super tube sets in select models of the Litespeed lineup.

	Cruising Top tube 35% Seat tube 24% Down tube 16% Chain stays 7% Seat stays 6% Other 12%
	Sprinting/Climbing Down tube 55% Seat tube 16% Top tube 10% Chain stays 7% Seat stays 3% Other 9%
	Hard Braking Down tube 58% Top tube 26% Seat tube 5% Chain stays 4% Seat stays 1% Other 6%
	Vertical Impact Seat stays 32% Top tube 29% Down tube 18% Seat tube 9% Chain stays 7% Other 5%