Just because
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because it's sexy
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...damn it why does it look dirty close-up? 😀
I bought one of these. I think it looks cool, skinny tubes just look good to me and it seems to ride pretty well, also blue. I like blue.
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The Handjob fram is still around, but the Beast died years ago.
Also, there was a very definite difference in the way the bikes rode, the HJ was so much more comfortable to ride over reasonable distances, ten to fifteen miles, the Beast left me feeling like I'd been done over with a meat tenderiser.
You need to study stats ("the plural of anecdote isn't evidence" to quote my favourite big hitter) and also not compare such different bike.
Apart from that, great big hitting!
Plus, it has a proper screw-in BB rather than some crappy press-fit piece of junk.
Something to be said for this. It seems (in terms of off the peg 'normal' frames) that the order is Carbon > Aluminium > Steel in terms of performance, but Steel > Aluminium > Carbon in terms of practicality.
I have a Cannondale Carbon Synapse which is fantastic in almost every respect, but creaks, and requires constant upkeep to keep it running quietly, and specialist carbon specific greases, and a ****ing torque wrench just to tighten the seatpost or stem, all sorts of new tools and greases and patience for the press fit BB30A bottom bracket and, oh, I haven't dared go near the internal cable routing yet. Did I mention I can't fit any sort of decent mudguards (but I knew this when I bought it).
Meanwhile, the Genesis Equilibrium I so badly want doesn't require any new tools that I don't already own from 6 years ago, has a threaded bottom bracket, probably won't creak but could be silenced with bog standard grease if it did, takes mudguards etc etc.
The last aluminium frame I had sat somewhere in the middle on the scale of inconvenience...
None of this is inherent to steel, but I doubt you'll find a carbon frame with a screw in bottom bracket, external cables, mudguard clearance etc etc
456 Carbon frame has all of that.
1947 Hobbs
1960s Carlton
1970s Viscount rescued from the tip
1980s Emperor Sport
1982 Holdsworth
1984 Overburys
1993 Dawes
and a few other steel framed bikes probably from the 80s
Not much room for aluminium and none for carbon in my collection
456 Carbon frame has all of that.
Granted, I hadn't really included mountainbike frames in my argument 8)
NS Surge. That's all I have to say.
