I know Grant designed a frame for soma… I assume this is it? Weird AF with the couplers.
Missing the cycletruck style sign
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Wow first San Marcos I’ve seen with couplers
The prices on those are just dumb. People think they’re a Riv but they were like $750 for a frameset.
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Unplugged bars and loose fender bridge cordage screams JA to me.
Spending coupler money on a quill stem bike is JA imo but that is more subjective.
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Also, would that farm gate fit in an S&S case?
Recalled cranks too.
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Probably, but it would make things much harder to ‘Tetris’ in there. My Vaya with a 60cm and a sloped top tube works because the frame wraps around the ‘cones’ made by the hubs and spokes near them (which are the tallest part), that second top tube goes right through that area.
Still, even if it’s tough to stuff in an airline-standard suitcase, the couplers make life much easier traveling. When I did my big Turkey/Balkans tour, I had to ‘break’ the frame to stuff the bike into the occasional van shuttle or bus cargo storage. And, a few Swedish trains wouldn’t let me on with a full bike, but disassembled a bit and stuffed into a plastic bag made it fine.
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I’m pretty convinced that every photo of a bike you ever see on the Internet the first thing you do is zoom in on the cranks to decide if they are recalled. And, as a safety engineer, I support that mission.
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Oh, that quill was definitely a choice by the owner; if you’ve got the scratch to pay someone to put couplers onto your bike, you’ve got the scratch to buy a threadless fork and put a proper stem onto the thing.
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Probably ridden more miles this week than I have all year. IDK this is tarck.
Sure have a thick spacer or even two to leave room for decaleur or whatever, but this kind of tall stack on a threaded fork is blech.
Front brake cable long and pokey and untrimmed.
Dangler B-screw.
Classic tire label not lined up with valve stem.
Oh and the Crust school of different-reach brakes!
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Am I wrong or does this “prototype bend” look like shit? Especially with the paint job
Lots of “little details 
” type comments
Since all city is dead a buried not feeling up to shitting on the post itself. Also Jeff seems like a real dickiw
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one of the few kinks it is acceptable to shame shartmo
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Looks like someone yolo’d off a 3’ wall and landed hard
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Looks uggo. Not sure how much to credit Jan, but his obsession with nicely curved fork blades did I think urge others to pay attention and so everyone commenting on Rawland or Kogswell or iBoblist or any NAHBS bike would call out that kind of uggo bend and urge manufacturers to get better.
@igor didn’t V-O have some work to do getting factories to understand the kind of fork bends that were desirable? (Maybe before your time in charge.)
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Funny to see people miss the point so hard
Prototypes are deliberately not about the “little details ”
The production model looks quite nice
This just let them test geo with existing / flexible tools
I love seeing this stuff from the “how the sausage is made” angle, not because it’s necessarily pretty
A dude who I used to wrench with went to some bike jerks event a few years ago an… let’s just say it did not enrich his relationship to the minneapolis bike scene.
edit for fun: another guy who i used to work with is heavily involved in the genosack group and I am pretty sure I support whatever it is they’re doing
yea and they were like why do you want that? That’s old style. It took a lot of trial and error to make the dropouts for the QR Disc Polyvalent and Pass Hunter. It would have been handy to have a 3d printer back then.
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