I'm confused here too. I understood that these modified Sam Hillbornes were replacing the original mystery/long bikes for the Joe Appaloosa "name," but I thought that they were going to have long chainstays in addition to having more tire clearance. I seem to recall a Blug entry or something which mentioned that Dave or John had a brainstorm of combining: (1) the existing Hillborne lug set and (2) new special-order chainstays with (3) the un-utilized Appaloosa Headbadge - and that this was how the idea was born. Does this sound familiar to anybody else, or am I imagining things?
In general, this looks like a great update to the Hillborne and, as noted by others, I can't imagine why they'd ever go back to the lesser-clearance version.... though I'm not sure that alone warrants a name change. Canti versions have existed since the beginning of the model run, and other models have gone through much bigger changes *without* a name change. (Bombadil gained tire clearance AND diag-a-tube, for instance.) But, unfortunately, this looks like its not going to fill any gaps for me, unless they can fit a much bigger tire than the 50mm (and fit different sizes than the Hunqapillar). I was thinking that this project was a good backup plan to have out there on the horizon, but I guess I'm back to crossing my fingers that my Clem will fit better than the numbers suggest and now ALSO hoping that I don't regret passing on your 56 Bombadil (Bill), in the meantime. On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 11:33:45 AM UTC-6, Bill Lindsay wrote: > You are only confused because it's kind of confusing. > > They've liked the name "Appaloosa" for a long while, and have several bike > concepts in the pipeline. They fully developed the appaloosa name, by > getting a badge made and presumably all the other decal work. So they are > going to use that name, no matter what, on some bike. Which bike gets that > name has changed over time. That LONG BIKE is a bike in the pipeline, that > maybe will eventually get made. That LONG BIKE just won't have the name > Appaloosa, even though there have been LONG BIKE prototypes that have been > called Appaloosa, and some that even have the Appaloosa badge. > > On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:01:30 AM UTC-7, Garth wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm a bit confused .... I thought the Appaloosa was suppose to have >> really long chainstays, a diagonal tube, and more rake . >> >> This one : https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8186/8419517174_1e94722b62_b.jpg >> > -- 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.
