Carbon frame, steel fork/that front end has got some pork
This whole small diameter alu thing sounds like a fun experiment but I just don’t think people will buy it.
I know there are plenty of Alan and Vitus frames around after all these years but still, aluminum + flex = bad right?[/quote]
I always thought the qualms about those frames were due to the fact that they where glued together, not that they were aluminum. My Vitus certainly planes like a motherfucker
Boules Polir
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[quote=randsome beast]Gonna be real here for a second
Y’all mothafuckas need to quit knocking off a cheap version of the NFE and improve on it.
That means carbon.
That means not letting a dad name it.
That means hitting the nexus of nerd tire size and exclusivity.[/quote]
Rando is right…
Ok… who has 500K to open some molds?
All sarcasm aside I’m a little surprised we have not seen any rumblings on this front. Makes sense that Cannondale would be the first to do a mainstream 650b bike being the weirdos that they are. If I was working for a Jamis level company I would be pushing hard to do it. They are just big enough to pull it off.
Rocky Mountain would be a logical brand. Already a little kooky. They could do it and take a real run at Salsa. Would be pretty awesome to see.
Special Ed’s stubbornly sticking with naming their 27.5 mtb tires 650B, and they got Hellhummus on the AWOL crap and you now he’s down with the Jan.
And they love stealing shit and claiming they invented it.
Giant popularized the 27.5 name, but means that Spec will never, ever acknowledge it, especially since Trek and Giant are two sides of the same coin.
I was expecting to be dissapointed but I was really hoping that someone posted their bike…
Took off the fop bars, put the 29er tires back on, moved the seat tube water bottle cage down.
Put on a taller stem today, will change the gear to 36/40 x 18/22 dinglespeed.
Finished up my new trollbike today.
Got the frameset about 4 months ago and it’s taken this long to get around to building it. Still haven’t finished building the rear wheel (matching china carbon) cos got sent half a dozen incorrect spokes. Might get into that soon. Need to hook up lights to dynamo too. Also gonna make a plywood box with seatbelt for child carrying. Kinda balling with M8000 and carbon bits but yolo.
Hoping I won’t buy any more bikes for a year or two now. Think I have every bike I want.
That’s awesome. I love pointless carbon.
How much does it weigh?
That bike is ridiculous and I love it.
This bike so much right now.
I can’t fit a rear Enve Smart cause the bike was built before wide rims were a thing. Using an Enve 65mm instead. This bike hasn’t felt this good in a long time. Long live ti/crabon.
Woah crazy that an omnium made it all the way over there.
There’s two Omnium dealers in Australia.
I’ll try and weigh it today. It’s not superlight.
I’ve seen a handful of those omnium things on the streets of Chicago. Are they a euro thing?
From Denmark. They ride like a normal bike and come in different sizes so you don’t have to work around a one-size-fits-all.
Btw, Mig, as pictured with a few extras (bell, light mounts, bottle cage), it’s 42lb. Doesn’t feel that heavy when riding though. You should get one.
Copenhagen is kind of a mecca of cargo bikes. We’ve got “Cargo Bike”, Bullitt, Omnium, and Christiania Bikes.
Omnium is run by Jimmi “Jumbo” Bargesen, OG messenger and a friend of mine does their design work.