Talbot Dalsnibba ISP No.1

HSS?

I want, also.

Get in the queue then, sucker!

I think a new bike for 2016 - I'll be (shudders) 40.

I may use that as an excuse to pull a few stops out.

Talbot recumbent?

Mobility scooter..

With any luck it'll be finished before you're 50

i.e. before his flat..

Retirement home.

This should be out of the jig soon. All brazed up so im told. I just need to decide weather to stick with the old school wishbone, or go with the new style pencil one.

are you going to have him revise the design for wireless?

Get the old style one. Definitely.

Old style

thats what i'm leaning towards. I think the massive Spirit HSS downtube will make the pencil stays look a bit funny.

Fraid not. Maybe Mk3 will be wireless.

It has these new style wire ports which have changeable inserts to take all types of cables/wires. Kinda like this:

Rear mech wire comes out of the hooded dropout like this:

I think new style, because a) they're better (less material, lighter, more efficient) and b) the contrast between the major tubes (headtube, downtube. chainstays) and the minor tubes (as it were) is part of the visual identity.

This isnt a weight wennie bike, so the difference in weight isnt an issue. The main reasons for choice will be aesthetics, and for me, the old style wins when using massive tubes for the main triangle. Matt said hes gonna send me a few photos of mock ups to look at, so we'll see.

It'll look well weird if you do that.

MAX top tube I thought?

TT is same as last time. the weird twisty one. Is that MAX?

Yeah, thats my point.

Yes.

Whatever you do Bobby, don't take style advice from Dammit

lolololol.

Whatever you do Bobby, don't take style advice from Dammit

Non-plussed by this, it's like Helen Keller trying to mock me for wearing glasses.

Hmmm.