Cautionary tale, do your inspections now and again...
In the spirit of the late Jobst Brandt, I challenge him to show more compliance in any frame besides aluminum! Sure if you have a carbon with some built-in iso blobs or flexy posts. But really, you're sitting at the apex of a triangle, show me where the compliance is!!!LOL
Aluminium frames are the work of the devil
Aluminium frames may well have come a long way in recent years, but are they still as brutal on the body? Steve Thomas has his sayroad.cc
Happy ending? Kona warrantied the frame as promised. 10 year old frame replaced with a 2023. It will require some new parts but that's a solid response from Kona. For $500 he'll have basically a brand new CX bike. Fortunately he has access to cheap labour....
But really, you're sitting at the apex of a triangle, show me where the compliance is!!!
Honestly, one of the primary reasons I like sloping top tube is longer seatpost which offers compliance. They really need to compare apples to apples in these "aluminum is harsh" things..You know, setting up a motion amplification camera could be a quite fun project...
Honestly, one of the primary reasons I like sloping top tube is longer seatpost which offers compliance. They really need to compare apples to apples in these "aluminum is harsh" things..
Shall we raise our glasses to the nice people at Giant then?
I like modern aluminum! One of my carbon bikes is probably the smoothest bike I've ever ridden - Salsa Cutthroat. But that said, I've been on a couple of far cheaper Alu bikes lately too,and they have been remarkably smooth. Even one with a cheap aluminum fork that is significantly smoother riding than aome carbon forks. Some aluminum tubing tuned up really nicely nowadays!In the spirit of the late Jobst Brandt, I challenge him to show more compliance in any frame besides aluminum! Sure if you have a carbon with some built-in iso blobs or flexy posts. But really, you're sitting at the apex of a triangle, show me where the compliance is!!!
Again, good on Kona for making the warranty happen.
I'm not sure I believe you!!Kona is just full of fine, fine folks!
So I hear they'll be bankrupt by summer and that it's fairly self inflicted. Glad this frame got done!Kona is just full of fine, fine folks!
So I hear they'll be bankrupt by summer and that it's fairly self inflicted. Glad this frame got done!
His wife calls it the middle aged mutant Ninja turtle...It is a pretty bike.