It is truly a great looking frame design. The announcement of the weight provoked me to go weigh my 56cm Bomba. I took off the waterbottle/pump and seatbag. It weighs 30.5lbs, which I think is pretty good. If I wanted to strip it down for weight, I'd pull the front and rear racks and swap out the Brooks saddle, and it would be down below 28lbs. That's not bad for a bike of the apocalypse.
I'm a little surprised that nobody has said they hate it or that it's ugly. Maybe the group has weeded out the voices of dissent. I expected somebody to gripe that the additional tubes were overkill on an already overbuilt bike. I wonder if now the gripers will return their focus to the Hunqapillar and call it half-baked since it doesn't have the stays. We'll see. My gripes about the new Bomba are nitpicking things. Dark green bikes bore me, but that's obviously a trivial detail. I'm also not crazy about the new downtube decal. The 'M' with the 'x' in it is great, but the 'B's' are not strong. It's kind of a shame that the gorgeous head badge no longer matches the font of the decal. Maybe they'll spin a new headbadge, hopefully with a creature, not centered on the new 'B'. I prefer the original decal font, but people won't be looking at the decal as much as the frame design. I wonder what the 52 and 48 will look like. On Sep 10, 8:23 am, Mike <mjawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I posted that link last night and read through the comments and > went and looked at that frame again. Man, is that thing beautiful. The > color is perfect. What a great looking frame. And so functional with > all those braze-ons. I'll be in the Bay Area at the end of the month > and will hopefully swing by RBWHQ where I'll get to maybe see one of > these in real life. > > I'm hoping later today they'll post some new pictures of a Hunqapillar > complete. > > --mike "who needs to start getting his gear together for next weeks 3 > day excursion into Gifford Pinchot NF" j. -- 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.
