Aye, Bill, but your kilt won't blow up in yer face, so practicality remains.
With abandon, Patrick (who abandoned wearing a kilt daily after discovering knickers after getting a Hunqapillar and needing something to ride in). On Thursday, January 9, 2014 5:33:21 PM UTC-7, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > There is now a 60cm Cheviut posted on the blug > > > > <http://24.media.tumblr.com/ee79d4a261cbec8b86d1ed419d857264/tumblr_mz4041WEjH1qe3ngpo2_1280.jpg> > > That's about the highest stepover step-through I've ever seen. Clearly > it's got the straight line look, and the diagatube is effectively raised up > due to the massively tall headtube and the looong chainstays. If you are > 6'5" with a bad hip, I wonder if this is going to be a lot easier to mount > than a regular diamond bike. > > On the other hand, it looks like this 60cm might have room for a second > water bottle cage in there! The braze-ons are not there, but it looks like > there's room. ;-) > > > On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 6:28:21 PM UTC-8, Cecily Walker wrote: >> >> I'm confounded. I've looked at my 55cm Betty Foy, and I don't notice a >> kink. I definitely can see one on the Cheviot that's on the Blug, and I can >> clearly see it on Vince's staff bike in the Staff Bikes section of >> rivbike.com. >> >> On Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:27:07 AM UTC-8, BSWP wrote: >>> >>> There's a picture of a 60cm Betty Foy on Riv's blug, and it's the first >>> I remember seeing where the top/diaga-tube looks to meet its rear >>> counterparts in a clean straight line. On others, and I guess smaller sized >>> frames, the top tube meets the rear tubes with a slight kink. Again, I must >>> not have paid attention to other images, or to the frames in person. But >>> why the difference? Is it to keep the step-through height of the top tube >>> identical across frame sizes? It's no doubt identical in rigidity and >>> stoutness, but quite different in appearance, one size to another. I like >>> the look of a single line from top of head tube to rear axle. >>> >>> - Andrew, Berkeley >>> >> -- 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.
