Just picked up my frame today, tight chainstays, beautiful weld work, and nice attention to details were the first that struck my fancy. Got it built up and am loving the low top tube and high BB. The apparently did away completely with the Black Betty, and invested some R&D into the Nighttrain. Notable changes are: nicer yoke for the chainstays, bigger headtube gusset, 1" on the seat tube, .25" taller BB with 465 fork. Very pretty once it got built up:
However upon sitting on it and spinning the bars. Sadness.
First impressions just goofing around in the driveway in 24degree weather.
Even with the toe overlap, it seems to barspin and x-up fine, but I am doing both bunny hop so my feet are tilted back quite a bit. It's very flicky, having just come from an NS Suburban it feels tiny which is great. The higher BB makes it easy to get up into the air, manuals like any other sub 15" chainstay bike would. The steep head angle makes footjams effortless. The seat can be tucked way low and out of the way, which is a huge plus for me. Integrated seatpost clamp is nice. They are still rocking the integrated headset too.
My only complaints so far: I would have gladly sacrificed the ease of foot jams with the steeper headangle, for the clearance for barspins and x-ups with a slacker headangle/little longer top tube. I'll give a more indepth testing tomorrow.
However upon sitting on it and spinning the bars. Sadness.
First impressions just goofing around in the driveway in 24degree weather.
Even with the toe overlap, it seems to barspin and x-up fine, but I am doing both bunny hop so my feet are tilted back quite a bit. It's very flicky, having just come from an NS Suburban it feels tiny which is great. The higher BB makes it easy to get up into the air, manuals like any other sub 15" chainstay bike would. The steep head angle makes footjams effortless. The seat can be tucked way low and out of the way, which is a huge plus for me. Integrated seatpost clamp is nice. They are still rocking the integrated headset too.
My only complaints so far: I would have gladly sacrificed the ease of foot jams with the steeper headangle, for the clearance for barspins and x-ups with a slacker headangle/little longer top tube. I'll give a more indepth testing tomorrow.