Well, the stays are certainly unconventional. Good to see people willing to try new things. Brant – is the bend just to give space for the caliper to mount to the chainstay then?
I really like that – I guess the 44mm headtube thing gives all the functionality of all the other headset sizes without looking like having a mug stuck the front of your bike.
Yeah, stays are similar to the ones 18bikes offer on their custom frames.
All in all, lots of good things that have appeared on custom or small run bikes before, it's the combination of them all, in a fairly volume product that's nice.
44mm headtubes on production steel frames a very good move indeed.
so, this talk of new headsets then- the pig et al are going to have what looks externally to be a similar diameter to 1.125 headtubes, but will use a(nother!!!!) headset standard to enable use of tapered (and 1.5"?) forks.
So is the same as, and backward compatible with zero stack?