Thanks for sharing Sean. I had the pleasure of speaking to Matt in person last year at Belmar Bike Shop (I think they handled most Crust inventory prior to Matt officially opening Crust HQ) and although brief, our conversation touched on some of the same topics. I work only 15 minutes or so from Belmar, NJ and they have become my preferred shop in the area (I live an hour away and have another couple shops closer to home I'll also purchase from.) Although I can't recall what I first stopped in there for I had spotted an Evasion with the new ultra wide 666cm "leather bar" drop bars in the workstand. Turns out Matt was there in the back and they had recently taken delivery of the first batch of bars... so I bought one of the new bars to try out and also got to check out the new Romanceur frame. I noticed the (first run) Romanceur shared the same fork crown as the (now discontinued) Velo Orange Camargue (my wife rides a small 26" Camargue) and that sparked a discussion on lug selection and he pointed out the same thing mentioned in the PLP interview regarding the discovery of tooling and development costs and admiration for Riv's no compromise, ground-up lug design and production. He noted the Romanceur/Camargue crown and the rest of the lugs were essentially chosen from supplier catalogs due to cost/availability and the prohibitive costs and timeframe of trying to design their own. He mentions in the PLP interview, however, actually getting some fork crowns made and I look forward to finally stopping in the new Crust HQ and checking them out along with his other new products.
Brian Cole Lawrenceville, NJ On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 9:31:11 AM UTC-5, sean wrote: > Hello Rivsters, > > I know there is some Crust love among my fellow Rivendellians. Well, Russ > at PLP has a great interview with Matt from Crust. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5eJzXVzKFg > > Riv content (spoiler) - Matt expresses his admiration for Grant and > Rivendell. > > Sean > ATX > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
