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Seems more of a marketing gimmick. It's probably OK for a city street.
The top and bottom tubes are twisted in opposite directions. They probably do this because to balance poor torsional stiffness if they were the same twist.

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I have done a little more searching and found that Litespeed was founded by members of the Lynskey family.
They did some contracting and consultancy work for NASA on the Mars Curiosity Rover.
I have still not found any evidence that the twisted top tube is anymore than a gimmick as it does not appear Litespeed have ever produced twisted tubing on their frames.

 
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