Originally Posted by
smallwheeler
well, you have to admit the jango flik is light years ahead of its predecessor. note the addition of a nearly perfectly horizontal toptube, lending massive amounts of structural integrity to the frame as well as producing an intangible and ineffable sensory experience in the viewer that one could only describe as aesthetic bliss.
personally, i'd rather have a boonbike.
(Yeah, I had to look it up to be sure…)
Gotta go with sw here; I also prefer the Boonbike.
They seem consistent in their KISS appoach. "We're goin with a honkin' big heavy single bent tube frame. Tough." I especially like how they just flattened out the swingarm round tube to get a squished oval to mate with the rear dropout. I love that, having done it myself (but not for a dropout.)
Hydroformed tubing is a very powerful technology, but it seems like snobby tech-overkill here. And that swollen frame is just ugly. It reminds me of a scene from a Nature-is-Kind-and-Gentle TV documentary that ends up showing the opposite: a giant python swallows a small pig or dog whole while the announcer alarms "This has even happened to small children!!"
[in Crocodile Dundee vioce] Ineffable? Nah, that's not ineffable, this is ineffable. Ti Mini velo:
I'm saving up now to get one of these with disc brake mounts.
hmmm.....Maybe I should change my screen name to The Ineffable Frame Tube Nazi.
(Some of you have reading comprehension problems. My heartburn is with the manufacturers who foist very bad designs onto a largely technically illiterate public, not with the public. I have this same dislike for unscrupulous auto repair mechanics who hoodwink the public.)