Yeah shand are pricy, did contact him for a quote and tbh for that money I’d rather save up for a speedvagen or firefly. I’d forgotten about burls though.
I ran 42:16 when wasn’t racing but changed last year to 39:18 which seems better for races and not terrible for hacking in the woods.
As said above, jonba comments echo my own sentiments. I might have to whittle down to one bike and at the moment the cx is just so versatile it’s hard to see beyond it. Makes dull trails exciting and riding to the woods less of a hamster wheel slog. As for racing, well give it a shot and just expect to suffer 😉
They’re releasing a standard sizing option to reduce price, they don’t detail what columbus tubing they use but similarly I figured it would be a chunk lighter than the cross check. It just got me thinking. I also started to wonder why 953 hasn’t been more widely used as initially builders seemed to be singing it’s praises?
I guess what I’m really asking is if it would be an appreciable weight difference. the real problem is that you could in theory use the same tubing eg 4130 and build 2 bikes that weigh the same but ride very differently depending on how you build it – not only geometry but the tubing diameters etc
Friend has a king bb and loves it, never serviced it so could poss split costs with him. Economics will prob force a tiagra as a stopgap unless find something second hand but will invest for next winter.
^I’d say that was pretty accurate, love my oakley clear-black photochromics but dark to some degree whenever you step outside. Not found it a problem but sometimes if I stop and take my sunnies off it seems dark when put them back on.