Liesl, Design away the top tube. If you get the twin transect right you have plenty of structural support. We have mixtes, love'em.
Will On Friday, August 23, 2013 6:53:08 PM UTC-5, Liesl wrote: > > Hi friends, > > What a tutorial in gears! I'm learning quite a bit! A few comments on > that topic from my perspective: I'm in the Edwin W camp. Simple shifting, > a bail-out gear...that'll do for me. I, too, ride a single most of the > time and I expect to keep my triple Saluki, and my 1x8 Friday is just > swell. I live in Minneapolis and most of my riding is my 20 mile commute > with only one big hill so this set-up gear-wise will be just fine for me. > > On the diagatube front, yes, William, they will tentaculate back to the > whimsical seatstay/chainstay curls. It will be way cool. And of course, > there will still be a top tube. And what are "those spanning webs to > attach a h2o cage"? Gotta picture? > > On the delivery schedule: Riv is waiting for some tubes, then it will go > to Mark Nobillete and he'll have a month/month and a half and then to Joe > Bell and he'll also have a month/month and a half, so November would be > pushing it. I want to fly out to Riv for the build and be a fly on the > wall, so we'll see. > > On the color front: Khaki WWII green. Thinking about wood fenders. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
