On 7/18/2019 8:14 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 1:34:11 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 3:30:36 PM UTC-4, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 11:45:26 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 7/18/2019 12:59 PM, Chalo wrote:
To my eyes, they don't look as nice as a frame made from tubing, but they look nice enough. Braze-on style front derailleurs are a nuisance, because they limit the sizes of chainrings that can be used. But these days, you can go without a front derailleur anyway.

My one major misgiving is the deletion of the right seatstay on the "Erik" model. If you can put that kind of grievous design blunder into production, what other-- less visible but still serious-- problems might you have made for the end user?


Over Two Thousand US Dollars ?

You'd expect some at least minimal engineering integrity for
that kind of money.

The road bikes aren't even pretty like the Renovo, RIP. https://bikeportland.org/2018/10/04/...t-quits-290561

Been there, wood that.

Those Renovos were pretty indeed!

There's still Calfee bamboo bikes. https://calfeedesign.com/bamboo/ But to me
they look like some high school kid's environmental science project. Too organic
for me.

Wood wasn't my thing, but I was really sorry to see them go. I'm saddened when any of the custom builders bites the dust, although a replacement seems to spring up -- probably because of the UBI frame building program. https://bikeschool.com/index.php/classes/frame-building But wood was a novelty. We need a new novelty bike. Maybe a bike made out of cannabis. Combine a few novelties.

-- Jay Beattie.


In principle I agree. Bruce Gordon left Oregon and the
world was generally better, but now he's left the planet and
we're short one genius and a pile of beauty.

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