Where is this? I must rip next time I’m in Chicago.
And you act like the city actually cares about anything… when I lived there it made Detroit look like a safe and law abiding city.
That’s over by Lane, right? I brought a bunch of teens there for a summer program on rigid 26" dingle speeds and some of them were ripping.
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In high school we used to run a cross country race through there, the lane tech invitational. It was the most fun course, like steeplejack but real. No concrete back then though
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Not unless Jeff makes a one piece bar/stem now.
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Where are you riding to?
First I was like
Then I was like
I dunno where/by whom this frame was built, but they sure put some magic in the tubes. Thing rides sooooooo nice.
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Is that your old kogswell?
woo hoo!
that split bottle cage nesting and rear axle x seat clamp is some S-tier tetris
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It is, I just know nothing about it, when it was made or what. It has a 9/8 headtube.
@JUGE_FREDD prob knows
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mental repository of the [KOG] listserv
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I’m already back. I took the train and bus into Santa Cruz and then rode to Watsonville.
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from the horizontal dropouts that’s Kogswell P/R gen2 in 650b
9/8" top tube in 8/5/8 and downtube in 9/6/9 with multiple fork offset options, they were made by Maxway just like contemporary Surlys but with differently stupid decisionmaking
I got mine in the first 2007 batch and totaled it in 2011 after I had already preordered the Rawland rSogn which was the next internet dither homercar
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Orbea Alma the best gravel bike money can buy
pity about the headset tourism though
its literally fine. Who changes bars when you have sickass 1 piece bar/stem from the factory?!
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