I’ve just got a copy of VTT magazine, in which there is an interesting article on small French frame manufacturers. All of which I had never heard (does not admittedly mean a great deal…esp as I have no links with the industry :wink:) Anyway, it seems Brant isn’t the only one coming up with bizarre chainstay and seatstay bridges….
The Evil Sovereign was the first place I spotted the driveside only plated chainstay that double as the bridge, but that was already 2005, probably done before that I’d have thought. It’s just my reference, as that’s where I first saw it, no idea if you saw it elsewhere, but I thought I remember a conversation from “back then” about the Evil. Memory not to be trusted though.
The wink in my post was just because I was twittering on about 2souls this morning, after only finding out about them via a google search yesterday, and thought that had brought them to the front of your mind.
Not liking the look of, but loving the ingenuity of, their drive side plate that also doubles as the chain guide mount:
I meant to do ISCG mounts, but then sort of forgot/ignored/decided not to. It can still be done from one plate but I had enough trouble explaining what I wanted to Americans and Taiwanesians too.
And I’ve got to have something back for V2 🙂
And I have an idea for a nice bolt on one, with something else too 🙂
are they not supposed to be flipped upside down? I figured that the “bar tails” were there as map board supports for theses “low sweep” bars?
oh and I thought we’d all descided that there would be no more photos of hammerschmitt as no one has it and it wont work in England due to our temperate climate, the magnetic north and a wrong type of mud?