I'll have to check out that thread. As a gray/orange Hunqapillar owner, I much prefer the darker shade of orange shown in your photo here.
On Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 6:25:39 AM UTC-6 Marty Gierke, Stewartstown PA wrote: > To satisify my own itch, I did a series of photoshop mockups of the first > diagatube Hunqapillars beginning Monday, April 5th at 7:59am. Two versions > - one that is like the production version we ended up with, and another > that had extended "mixte" like tubes that ended near the rear dropouts. > (That one sort of became the Bombadil ultimately.) These first mockups led > to more than 20 others, prompted by an email from Grant who saw the posts > here and wanted to explore different color combos and other details. It all > happened pretty fast. Here are mockups #1 and #2, and a couple others along > the way. If you look closely at the front tire markings, you can see how I > kept track of the various mockups. For the record, here is the thread where > these were revealed and all of this is discussed (passionately!): > > DiagaHunq Discussion > <https://groups.google.com/g/rbw-owners-bunch/c/rM7r1_ocwKg/m/y7EusTk4z0MJ> > > It was fun to be a small part of the history of this great bike. I owned > one for a short time, but it was way too small for me, and had some damage. > Looking back, those chainstays look ridiculously short! My current Clem H > is all the Hunq I need now. > > Marty > > [image: DiagHunq1.jpg][image: DiagHunq2.jpg] > > FYI - to facilitate the mockups I was using a pic that was posted on the > Riv site somewhere - it was Jay's bike: > > [image: Jay_s_H.jpg] > > This one in orange and grey, with a cork lift handle idea. Not sure who's > bike this was. > [image: Hunqamarty 10.0.jpg] > > OK - this one was a stretch... > [image: Hunqamarty 8.0.jpg] > > And a black & grey version I kind of liked. with graphics on the mid-tube. > [image: Hunqamarty 21.0.jpg] > > > On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 11:15:22 PM UTC-5 Jason Fuller wrote: > >> Michael - they switched from the dual TT style to the diaga-tube in 2010 >> on Bombadils :) So the diaga is the newer versio > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6fe44425-8af8-49fc-b54c-5437201288a2n%40googlegroups.com.
