On Apr 17, 10:39 am, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > bfd > > I think you are taking your point a little far. Grant/Rivendell is > not marketing the San Marcos at all, much less marketing it towards > the mainstream racing bike customer. Merry Sales and Soma aren't even > 'marketing' the San Marcos, and it's their bike. Grant 'specifically' > said that those folks who did buy a $6000 road bike should have bought > a bike like the San Marcos. Somebody with as much experience reading > Grant's postings as you do know what Grant means by that. He means > that folks who buy plastic 16lb bikes should be buying 20lb steel > bikes. That's a lot different than saying "Hey, you bike shoppers! > After you test ride that Cervelo and that Madone, come check out this > undertube! That would be ridiculous, but that's not what Grant said, > that's what you said. > If Grant said it the way you did - "folks who buy plastic 16lb bikes should be buying 20lb steel bikes" - I would agree. However, he didn't. Further, I seriously doubt the new Soma is going to weigh in at 20lb. Let's face it, guys who buy this frameset (which probably weighs in at 4+ lbs for the frame; 1.5+lbs for the fork), are not going to throw on light parts like Sram Red, Campy SR 11 or DA 10.
If you're paranoid about riding carbon, don't. However, I do think its ridiculous that Grant is making statements that guys on $6K carbon bikes should be looking at this one. > Merry Sales paid Grant for a design. Grant supplied one. None of the > prototype photos have the second TT, so I suspect Merry Sales/Soma > made the decision to add it. There's no way Grant called Merry Sales > and said "I've done the calculations and the bigger two sizes MUST > have a 2TT!" I'd bet a dollar that it's a fashion-driven decision, > and the tiny production run makes it sound like a loss-leader, which > bums me out on several levels besides the lousy idea of a 2TT on a > road bike. > Since I'm not involved in the conversations between Grant and Jim Porter of Merry Sales, I can't and won't speculate as to who said what. > good luck! > > Me, I love the 2TT on my parallel Bombadil, and I'm glad my 56cm > Hillborne doesn't have one. > Me, I ride a CARBON calfee with a gulp, CARBON FORK (that easily has 25K miles on it) and a steel taylor cross bike and both don't have redundant top tubes. Good Luck to you! -- 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-bunch@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.
