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SuspectDevice

Turbo Monkey
Aug 23, 2002
4,161
368
Roanoke, VA
Biggerer. No threads.


Way better silly stiff hanger and hooded drops.


Gimmicky integrated cable stops. Grape Drank!


Moar tire clearingness


Oh hai Havocstaff.


I'm stoked to finally start putting these things on the road. People love new crap, especially the pf30 setup. I'll run Shimano cranks until the day i die, but the people hath spake. I was surprised how much of a difference the new drops made in rear end stiffness. It should shift really well since 3 bolts hold on a 9mm thick hard anodized 7075 aluminum derailleur hanger. The thing i like the least about the Skeletor frames are the drops and derailleur hanger. I went overboard to rectify that.
I'm wicked excited to get the custom ano program going. There aren't too many other places where you can get a 3 color fade job with masked-out logos, splatter graphics and a picture of your cat sublimated onto the frame these days. You have to be willing to pay for it, but hot damn, it's going to be rad.
Ride!
 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
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you can get a 3 color fade job with masked-out logos, splatter graphics and a picture of your cat sublimated onto the frame these days. You have to be willing to pay for it, but hot damn, it's going to be rad.
Ride!

I want this. It will be called the rainbow in the dark. Can I get both of my cats on it?
 

ire

Turbo Monkey
Aug 6, 2007
6,196
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:stupid:

I had a Bike with it . it sounded good at the time, learned to regret that
Depends on how it's done. My X-Fire actually allows for the housing to slide through the internal routing. I've owned Kleins before and they were a PITA if the little tube popped into the hole.
 

SuspectDevice

Turbo Monkey
Aug 23, 2002
4,161
368
Roanoke, VA
Frankie torches metal-gluing these together for you as well?
Sapa in Portland does them. The manufactured cost would be too high to do them in VT. Idiot Americans that can't figure out the urgent need to buy domestically made goods and people hypnotized by carbon misinformation are to blame for the fact that we can't make them in VT.
The fact that Sapa makes the tubes, welds and heattreats under one roof makes our cost on a bike built there versus at FTW's is a little more than $200.
So lame.

p.s.

A full housing run weighs a lot more than a split run.
 

spam16v

Monkey
Oct 27, 2004
284
0
Buffalo, NY
The seat stays look stout, in the age of swoopy gimicky squashed tubing to claim ride compliance, they appear to be pretty much the opposite. How do the newly designed frames ride Mickey?
 

SuspectDevice

Turbo Monkey
Aug 23, 2002
4,161
368
Roanoke, VA
The seat stays look stout, in the age of swoopy gimicky squashed tubing to claim ride compliance, they appear to be pretty much the opposite. How do the newly designed frames ride Mickey?
Pretty well. Late fall is easily my favorite time to ride.


It took so frigging long to get these finished up, but I have a whole frigging bunch of them now.


They ride like bikes. The bb is slightly lower so it feels a little more planted.
The seat angle is a little slacker in some sizes. The headtubes are shorter to make the sizing more versatile It doesn't change the character of the bikes much, but the effective toptube lengths better match the sizing people are used to so I don't have to answer as many questions about sizing.

There are 2 frames in every box- time for me to hustle some units!
 

SuspectDevice

Turbo Monkey
Aug 23, 2002
4,161
368
Roanoke, VA
What's the MTB in the background?
It's a 650b "New England trail bike" in steel. A bike that dudes who used to race XC in the mid '90s will be stoked on. Neutral, strong and ready for some moto-style xc shredding. It's really good a low speed. Enough so that I think I was getting lazy. More importantly it's rock solid. It was weird liking something about a steel bike but it's wicked stiff. The rear triangle is made out of big round tubes. My favorite thing is how well it stays on line.
People are ordering lots of 650b stuff, surprisingly in steel.

Every mtb we make is a one-off, so it's not representative of anything, except awesomeness.
 

sokoloka

Monkey
Sep 14, 2005
160
1
San Diego / London
It's a 650b "New England trail bike" in steel. A bike that dudes who used to race XC in the mid '90s will be stoked on. Neutral, strong and ready for some moto-style xc shredding. It's really good a low speed. Enough so that I think I was getting lazy. More importantly it's rock solid. It was weird liking something about a steel bike but it's wicked stiff. The rear triangle is made out of big round tubes. My favorite thing is how well it stays on line.
People are ordering lots of 650b stuff, surprisingly in steel.

Every mtb we make is a one-off, so it's not representative of anything, except awesomeness.
Looks absolutely awesome. Sounds like something I'd be interested in come spring. Have any full bike shots?