If I buy, I will go with the fillet, since I can’t have my lugs and light, straight tubes like on my PERFECT Toyo Atlantis. (childish stomping on the ground, whiny pouty face😫). The fillet version takes me back to the eighties, and the high end, custom mountain bikes I couldn’t afford. I can’t afford a custom lugged bikepacker for wide tires now, but I can save up for the fillet Boots (gets up to put another ten in the piggy bank). Grant designs some of the best steel bikes in the world IMHO, so I will trust in that. I like the badge, the name, the graphics and I’m wrapping my mind around the dropped top tube. What I find funny, is that once I get the bike and ride it, all my drooping top tube dislike-silliness, will vanish, and I know it. It will be another perfect bike, because I expect it to be. I expect the details I have concerns about will be cleaned up and am looking forward to hearing about it’s further development. I was going to make new bikepacking packs for my Atlantis this winter, but I think I’ll wait and make them for the Boots. Making the frame bag will be fun (steering my brain to like the drooped top tube 😏), but am a little stumped on how to run the zipper without things falling out, or a wrinkled curved zipper that might hang up..🤔 I’ll figure out something esthetically, to compliment the frame, hopefully. Canvas X-pac probably, depending on what color the Boots is. I am getting slightly excited. MY ‘Nature Bike’, perfectly executed? (I much prefer ‘Nature bike’ over Hillybike). The drooping top tube bothers me esthetically, but will really appreciate the first time I don’t rack my nuts! Another word like beausage needs to be made up for the beauty, and the ‘advantages’ of a droopy top tube, to make it more appealing (to me). Any suggestions? Mumble....thinking......I was thinking maybe, ‘Notanutter’? Sexist. Never mind. Crotchless top tube? No, underwear....Nuttergutter? I am failing badly at this....Sexist again....but crotchgutter is ugly and weird. We need to seriously work on this....”Crochcanyon?” Getting rid of the whole crotch thing would be nice, but I keep coming up empty. 😝 Mongol saddle....hmmm...Aha! I got it.........”The MONGOLOTUBE”! Now that I have a name for it, and an appreciation for Grants description of the riding style of the Mongols, I am good. Any better suggestions? Now I need a name for the frame bag I plan on designing, for the bike I don’t have, for more help getting my brain to love the Mongolotube. 🤣 I am such a dorky bike nerd.....and the naming thing is fun, so ”The Mongolo pack”? Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Love your family. Clayton#dirtdancedesigns
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Thursday, November 22, 2018, 12:41 PM, Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: The TIGed v. filleted price points of $900 and $1600 are interesting..I'm glad to hear one of them will be in the Clem/Roadini range. I can't see myself popping for the pricier option to get fillets on a 'bash it around in the dirt' bike, but $900? Yep, I'm probably buying that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/BXD_9E34WUk/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. -- 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.
