Morati was the Czech mouse guy who made titanium parts I think Joel Metz has a webpage dedicated to him
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Ain’t arguing in favor of that bike but I always wanted an Ibis Scorcher and still do.
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HNNNNNGG
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Is it a Cannondale? Its making me have impure thoughts about that old Klein I picked up the other day. I could throw that spare sram red gruppo on it.
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That’s pretty hot.
because tarck:
Two different size tires.
Saddle slammed forward on straight post.
They make matching grey seatposts for that stem, matching spacers too.
Matching bottle cages are also available, or at least matching in color.
Valve stems too long.
Odd how at the front the pads aren’t at the bottom, tire must be close to contacting the brake arm. Yet at the rear pads can be at the bottom maximizing tire size except for perhaps too close to seat tube or pusher, hence smaller tire?
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Saw it on reddit. It’s cracked on the downtube now.
It’s everything I want a road bike to be.
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I have vague memories of tarck taking the piss out of this bike when it first appeared BITD. Didn’t old mate just get FTW to copy his silly fixie geo?
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Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
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I recall reading a lengthy blog post from the bike’s owner, it seemed as if they had a strong concept of a bike and weren’t taking notes from anyone on fit or handling.
Broakland did a similar thing a few years before this FTW bike, totally aggro crit geo, but when they started making road bikes for real (of which a tarck alum and I have the first two, I think), they settled on a less goofy approach to geometry.
now that the custom bike boom has largely plateaued, someone needs to comb through early 2010’s bike media for the bikes with the highest ratio of horrible design to client confidence in said design.
Road bike with track geo and room for 32’s is still a dream bike for me. I get why there’s never been enough of a market to actually make a production bike, but it makes me sad.
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Milin!
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How goes the Cinelli Vigorelli road look to you?
E—just saw that it’s rated to 28 max
Like parallel 75 and 32s? The toeverlap would make it only ridable on a track.
hot take but worrying about toe overlap on fast, road-going bikes is for people who haven’t ridden bikes consistently for more than a year.
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the geo is still a little slack for my tastes (assuming it’s the same on the road and track version); I don’t love the slacker ht and such on crit bikes, and as you say, smaller tire clearance. But yeah that’s approximately the closest that anyone currently makes (that I’m aware of).
Paging @oogens
I have a Mash Work and I love it. Honestly just one of those modified to be set up fully geared would be pretty fun imho.
But like I say, I totally understand why it’s not for everyone, and especially why companies are like “uuuh why would we make a bike with several qualities that not only have limited appeal in the first place, but that the average newbie will actively hate??”
And this stuff is tough to market in any sort of logical way too. Like the Work is marketed as being capable of sscx, but it’s not really. It’s got track geo and as a result is fun as a track bike with big tires aka fun for city cruising and smashing through potholes, but it handles like shit off-road.
As someone that obviously should know about bikes I still get confused for half a second if I try to think about higher/lower as a term in relation to the bike. I obviously know what the terms mean but if I start to try to decode them in my brain everything just shuts down for a second. It’s a truly awful way to describe bicycle gearing.
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