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For at least the third time...Merlin are no longer the company they were under Tom Kellog. It would also look 50x nicer with a truss fork.
Eugh gopping tyres , forks and gearing for what £7k or whatever it will be.
yes truss fork in ti please plus it is no real Merlin ffs
Not feeling any of that.
Not a patch on an original Newsboy.
(Would have looked better with skin wall tyres)
It looks like 73/74 angles..?
Eugh gopping tyres
What you on about, they’re round and black like a tyre should be?
(Would have looked better with skin wall tyres)
See, that would have been gopping
Why is the downtube attached halfway up the headtube?
For extra ball crushing newspaper holding hooliganism
Why is the downtube attached halfway up the headtube?
I noticed that too and I'm still trying to work it out. Maybe there's a good explanation for it but it looks like a future warranty claim to me.
And why no inner cable routing? Seems odd when the original was one of the few frames to have it bitd and it's so fashionable now.
My biggest gripe with the new incarnations is reserved for the dropouts. The machined dropouts and capped stays have always been the identifier of a Merlin frame. The Breezer style dropouts might be stronger, lighter and cheaper but I don't care, peel the stickers off a new one and you'd have no clue who made it (apart from the Newsboy obvs).
I could go on about them using the ABG era logo instead of the original but that's enough ranting for now.
Sadly only eight of them.
Sorry CFH. but I think they'll have a job shifting them! From that side profile they've managed to make it look like an Argos BSO, and I usually love the look of a cruiser bike.
Would have looked better with skin wall tyres)
Nothing looks "better" with skinwalls.
Downtube is halfway up steerer for fork clearance...suspension forks have a much wider stance than rigids (which is what that should have on it, not a bouncy device!).
Catastrophe.
Still as reasonably priced as they were in the 90's I see......
Frame only $4800....
It conjures images of a hungover Dot Cotton.
now,i'm usually a sucker for funny shaped titanium bikes, but that is gopping. I would much rather have a carver ti newsboy and rigid fork. or if was after something bendy tubed with a suspension fork, then i would go oddity
For about a $1000 Waltly Titanium will make you a custom newsboy frame (they make Carver, Travers etc etc). I’ve had one on the drawing board for yonks - nearly did it this year and along came Covid. I’ve absolutely no problem with Breezer / cowled drop outs as they’re the design most suited to titanium fabrication.
dovebiker
It would also look 50x nicer with a truss fork.
So it would still be pretty ugly with a truss fork?