You're probably right I've only owned 6 steel cross bikes over the years: 2 Independent Fabrications, 2 Bianchis, an Interloc and an Ibis. All 6 sloping top tubes and all had steel unicrown forks but my sample size is definitely small.
The other monster cross I like is the Black Mountain MUSA monstercross, and that most certainly does have a crowned fork, along with room for 45s, at $1700. Now a Legolas with 700x38s sounds pretty hot as well.... On Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:26:46 PM UTC-7, Mike Schiller wrote: > > When I do an image search, most cross bikes I see have flat or slightly > sloping top tubes for shouldering the bike which is very important in > racing. And most steel cross bikes have lugged crowns especially custom > ones. > > The dirt bomb is an interesting mix between their cyclocross and MTB > bikes. I'm sure it's a fun bike and the kind of bike I prefer for most of > my riding. I just would rather have lugged/brazed construction and lugged > fork crowns for my bikes. I did notice the Dirtbomb BB drop seems kinda > short for my taste at 60mm. > > *Now back to the original question*. The Legolas is a beautiful bike and > I really considered getting one now that it's possible, but the limited > tire clearance ( ~38mm ) pushed me to get something custom made. > > ~mike > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
