I had a canti-rom for awhile. It was a wonderful bicycle for long road rides, and I liked the simple lugs, 1-color paint, etc.
Actually, the lugs on the Atlantis and other Japanese frames got much more ornate toward the end. Perhaps GP thought that fancier lugs would help justify the rapidly increasing prices during the last couple years, or maybe the extra cost in the lugwork seemed tiny compared to the extra cost from currency exchange. In any case, the simpler, rounded lugs of ~2004/2005-ish were more of a middle point than an ultimate end of the evolution of these frames. On Dec 3, 7:08 am, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just received the canti-rom frame/fork last night. It is in rather > stunning shape and after looking it over I have to ask: > > Does anyone know why riv stopped making the simpler lug design? The > more ornate lugs like on the AHH and atlantis are beautiful but there > is something nicely understated about the ones on the romulus. I don't > know about anyone else but if there was a bike riv was going to bring > back as a taiwanese-built model I think this would be a good choice. > It's just beautiful. > > -sv -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
