Frame design details

[kaiser]

What frame design details do you like? What have you saw and thought was tidy/fancy/cool/neat etc? Pics if possible

 

[Tad]

Chain pip.

A small, seemingly insignificant thing but you got to love them for when you need to take the wheel out!

 

[Andy R]

Chain pip.

A small, seemingly insignificant thing but you got to love them for when you need to take the wheel out!

Yes, I don't know why hardly anyone fits them anymore.

Probably because most people that I see removing wheels out on the trail turn their bikes upside down to do it :roll: (I never do, BTW) My father told me not to do that when I was about six or seven years old and I've never forgotten it.

 

[orange71]

I like the 'hips' on my Saracen Kili seatstays.

 

[Easy_Rider]

Chain pip.

A small, seemingly insignificant thing but you got to love them for when you need to take the wheel out!

That's what it's called. Yeah, I use mine all the time on the Parkpre's, but they didn't fit it to the lower end Parkpre frame :?

I like to see small details on a frame that showed somebody cared, either in design or in construction. So for example, ubber neat welds, or a chain pip, well thought cable routing, something that gives the frame a soul. Very difficult to describe.

 

[barry2017]

You can't really know a frame until it's stripped to bare metal.

So I like the brazing on my Claud Butler mountain bike. Beautifully even and neat.

 

[JeRkY]

The head tube mounted cable routing on early top end marins. Always seemed an excellent way of preventing cable rub.

 

[kaiser]

Nice wee photo set


http://www.flickr.com/photos/shandcycle ... 49906/show

 

[LQQK]

On Boulders, I like the suspension link between the shock and swing-arm. It’s just a master link from a motorbike chain, so it is cheap and readily available. I also like replaceable rear derailleur hangers.

 

[crud]

intergrated seat stay / drop out pannier mounts, so much nicer than those barrells tacked on.

if you want pannier mounts that is