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I received mine yesterday. The parcel was pretty beaten up, sadly not packed well at all. Behind the white taperoll-leftover was the seat tube. Sadly the parcel wasn´t stuffed with anything, the frame was wrapped in 1 layer of thin plastic, but nothing secure at all. This wasn´t the only hole in the parcel. I was thinking of sending it straight back.
I love Roberts work, the frame all in all is a piece of art. The polished tubes, the polished weldings, very beautiful. He has my full respect but sadly there was a tiny hole in the head tube which seemingly has been there before the shipping. It seems to be filled with a tiny piece of alloy and then polished over again, because the filler has the same polishing structure as the surrounding head tube.
Sadly the top tube seems crooked, you see it without even looking hard. I´ve asked five guys without telling them anything about the toptube, every one saw the same offset of the headtube.
On the seat tube it´s the other way round.
I am very sad now...
Tell me if I´m too pedantically - in my opinion a crooked top tube shouln´d make for a good ride, what do you think?