Thread: The Ruut, Another cool-looking gravel bike: Swing and a miss?
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Old 03-07-17 | 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcus_Ti
Srsly. WTF are these companies thinking? This one is especially baffling since their engineers put a hell of a lot of thought into engineering a variable geometry frame for gravel riding.....and then not only cap the tire clearance at 700x40C, but don't provide ANY rack or fender bosses.

https://www.bikerumor.com/2017/03/07...n-alloy-steel/

Their PR photos even show needing to resort to a frame-bag that renders at least one bottle cage worthless....did no one look at that during PR materials review and say "uh guys this looks really stupid"?

Ugly ugly ugly 😘😘
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