The 8 speed 3/32" chain does give more deflection which in the case of an imperfect chainline is good. It's a 1/8" chain with less deflection that would be a worse situation.

And, I didn't think we were being attacked here, I just know that sometimes we are portrayed as this giant company when we're really just 5 jerks in a room talking about bikes, clacking away on computers, and spending every other minute riding. I do look out my window and see the QBP warehouse, but that generally means we have the resources to design weird stuff (read: Pugsley) and get away with it.

Sometimes we're seen as conference room inhabiting suit monkeys that always need to make profit profit profit. While we do need to make enough to keep the Man from booting our asses into the street, we are still motivated by designing the stuff we want to ride. It's totally selfish. We're just glad there are yayhoos like us out there who want to ride the same way we do.

And the squiggly logo is what it is. We did something different for the Pacer this year, but that won't likely make it to other models. We like the way our stuff looks and that's good enough for us. We know some folks don't like our logo, and some folks don't like our color choices, but that just goes to show that we're not pouring over our demographic metrics at the expense of good designs.

Cheers,
Eric