New PVD drop
“All-Road” is a peculiar way to describe a bike with 785mm flat bars and 2.6" tires.
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ATMO, it should be titled, “Free Jazz and the Art of Gatekeeping.”
It’s a Rapha article, so of course it’s going to be pretentious and corny, but lmao that was rich
Riding bikes for fun in general is privilege
I have opinions both posi and neg about omtm
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Ron is pretty affable IRL but definitely has an…uh, artist’s lens about things. They filled a void left by Velodirt but I think undersell the remote nature of some routes to inexperienced but eager adventure riders.
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I didnt read all the words… but I did look at the pictures and the “guide lines”… seemed fine enough to me.
Wow both M2 AND F2!
my EIC was like, “ditherers?” and i said “there’s an obscure bike forum that’ll love it” and we left it at that
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I dunno, I like that PVD fork. And I’ve been tillering the coop ebike here and there.
pvd fork looks great.
pvd bike looks fun to ride.
pvd bike is not all road.
pvd stem looks just terrible.
pvd bottle/cargo mounts on frame are p cool.
pvd drinks his own pee from a brandy snifter.
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i like that he named it after the critically flawed version that wrecked and nearly killed the pilot, instead of the modified M2-F3 that was much more controllable and enjoyed a much more extensive flight test career.
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“foreshadowing”
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Does anyone have any idea what is going on behind the bb?
he started doing drop yokes in mid 2022, and finally gave up on the seat tube with the ultra-tight bend at the bottom in early 2023. Now he’s just running the seat tube straight into the downtube ahead of the BB shell and putting in some bracing tubes behind it:
he’s been playing with the shape of the drop yoke and while it looks kind of weird on the print in the side view, i think it’s cute how the “chainstay bridge” is sort of a hoop that mimics the curvature of the tire.
the bikes look kind of goofy, but as a CAD jocky i do appreciate how much work PVD puts into smoothly blending forms together in his 3D print junctions. wish my coworkers were even half as good at doing this.
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I also like the way the drop stay does a “fork arch” type of thing, and I’m so relieved he finally realized he was mitering most of the seat tube bend away.
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For shorter chain stays?
Serious question–what “problem” is this bike trying to address/solve?
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and is equivalent to “normal BMX bars in a normal BMX stem”
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