Fat Chance Kickstarter

[M-Power]

650b Rosko. Proof a modern big wheel, rigid bike with most modern day accommodations can look good, ride well.

That is a nice looking bike. Shame the marketing men are forcing the agenda towards fugly tapered head tubes.

 

[henrysthreeironbands]

44mm would have solved it. I have a Ritchey WCS rigid fork on my steel frame with 44/44mm headtube. Since the diameter of the top of the carbon crown matches the HT diameter, it looks neat, even with a non-taper 1 1/8 !

 

[henrysthreeironbands]

the same fork looks stupid on their own non-44mm-HT frames though

 

[blilrat]

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Look at it on the new Ritchey 650b frame. Even though it's tapered, the headtube has a crafted look to it with the subtle curve and flared ends.

 

[sinnerman]

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Ritchey-£599.00

 

[FluffyChicken]

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Why do they taper and not use a big top nowadays and the counterpart larger stems. Seems odd to half and half it.

Just my thoughts.


But you have to remember this isn't about buying a bike. It's about getting Chris Chance back into the biking scene. If you wanted a top quality modern bike built by somebody from BitD and has been building them through the changes you could easily find somebody. Chris Dekerf for example and plenty of our homegrown builders.

You're donating to get an 'icon' to some peopel back in the game.


Remember to the younger lot, he means nothing. It's only you old farts that dreamt about out the bike.

 

[suburbanreuben]

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Look at it on the new Ritchey 650b frame. Even though it's tapered, the headtube has a crafted look to it with the subtle curve and flared ends.

And then they go and Eff it up with the even bigger crime of the bent down tube.

 

[henrysthreeironbands]

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And then they go and Eff it up with the even bigger crime of the bent down tube.

I think they actually have to do that to get sufficient clearance for the crown.

 

[syncrosfan]

I'm actually quite tempted by the new Ritchey frames. Modern geometry and features but with the classic looks and the awesome team colors at a decent price! Fair enough I would still prefer and old P-series bike but as far as new retro style bikes go, I think Ritchey did a great job checking all the boxes. The bent down tube is not my favorite but I understand it's a technical necessity (besides there are worse swoopy tube offenders out there). The fork could look more classic.

 

[aguycalled80]

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And then they go and Eff it up with the even bigger crime of the bent down tube.

100%

I can't even say how much I hate that little bend.

It makes me crazy that there are frames that don't need this, but have it because all the other frames have it.