Maybe it's the prototype and Riv caught that detail and the production ones will have it further back? Maybe it's on-purpose for those who will not run fenders and will run knobbies, for less mud stack-up down there?
Just guesses, but good eye. On Friday, January 3, 2014 2:43:35 PM UTC-8, Doug Van Cleve wrote: > > I wonder why the chainstay bridge is so far forward? It makes for awkward > fender mounting and there is no benefit (that I can think of) to it being > further from the axle than the brake bridge... > > Doug > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> When I talked with Grant about what bike would work for my wife with a >> kid on the handlebars and another on the rear rack, with panniers Grant >> suggested the Atlantis or Hunqapillar over the Betty for stoutness reasons. >> It seems pretty clear that the Hunqapillar is the way to go for loaded >> rough-stuff touring. >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> >> On Friday, January 3, 2014 2:28:54 PM UTC-7, Coconutbill wrote: >>> >>> Bill, just wait, in 2020 I'll be searching for one of these here on the >>> group... >>> >>> for me this could be a very appealing alternative to a Hunqa if I were >>> building a mountain touring bike. I'm assuming this is the same tubing as >>> on Betty. How stout is that compared to that of the Hunqapiller? >>> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
