Masi and Endpoint are the only people paying attention to the nerds right now
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That se is probably front thru and rear qr because making two forks costs more than just making one for both.
The new Masi has a lowtrail steel nerdfork that’s 12mm thru and flatmount disc? That’s kinda interesting all on it’s own.
'cept they are making two forks: the Elite is flatmount disc, while the SE and standard are IS-mount disc. Pretty sure the IS-mount fork is QR, too.
I am on desktop now and can see that. Yup. Weird. I wonder if the elite is then nicer tubing in the frame?
yeah, Elite will apparently have better tubing per my brief email conversation with them.
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The website describes the Elite and the non-suffix’d build as “Tig Welded Double Butted Columbus CROMR Chromoly Tubing”, and the SE as “Tig Welded Double Butted Chromoly Tubing”, so I think the SE likely has cheaper tubing/thicker walls.
The Elite also has a different head tube; integrated headset?
Kinda odd all around; I’d expect it would be cheaper overall to keep the frames+forks the same and only change the build kit. Makes it a lot easier to change up the mix of Elite/normal/SE midway through production without having to re-negotiate with the frame manufacturer if demand of each model doesn’t meet projections…
I would assume masi has been doing well enough since their re-imagining of their brand to keep going for this long so I sort of trust them.
But it appears to have cutoff optics so maybe someone in Shenzen is also paying attention.
edit: some variation of the Dosun U1. Here’s a review:
https://swhs.home.xs4all.nl/fiets/tests/verlichting/koplampen/Dosun_u1/index_en.html
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I mean it looks like a great light
and I understand that 175W is like an incandescent equivalent
but if I gotta put out 175W just to power the light, that’s like my threshold power now that I’m a slow cruiser corndog guy
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Can I acquire a cheap Chinese dyno wheel setup
That guy really needs to buy a better URL, I can never remember swhs.home.xs4all.nl
it’s his isp’s webspace, dude needs to timewarp to 2018
Wait is that s production yolobike with lowish trail, potentially nice tubing, and comes with dynonsetup
For under $2k?
Well golly
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Yeah, they really really would have hit the nail on the head if they shipped it with a front rack & bag that were all compatible with each other.
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If I owned a shop I’d push that bike to everyone that walked in
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The Speccy AWOL Expert prob has stiffer tubing and is not low trail. But otherwise pretty complete with fenders+flaps, rack, dynolights.
Still a stupid limited size run. Smallest size is a 49, biggest is a 60. Even with the 650b would be too big for a lot of folk I know who are into this kind of bike.
That is very limited sizes actually. Bummer about that. But I understand from a business perspective. Hopefully they sell enough to get more size minimums next year.
those look pretty interesting. i feel like i should buy one but that is not in the cards at the moment. out of curiosity, anyone know about the masi giramondo?