Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

I'd been lusting after one for the last few months, but since finding out they're not producing it in my size, I've started finding things I dislike about it to make myself feel better.

Beaauty!

Tell us more. What’s not to like?

Tell us more. What’s not to like?

A few petty things I've decided I don't like:

• Clearances for for 650bx47c - implying running 650bx42c would make me look like one of those fools that runs 23cs in a cyclocross bike.
  
• Elegance of quill stem, curved fork blades, and oversize downtube/non-oversized top tube clashes with disc brakes, larger/modern tire size and ridiculous MTB fork crown.
  
• Drilled for everything but dynamo.
  
• They decided to make a 57cm and a 60cm, instead of 56cm, 58cm, 60cm.
  
  

I really do like it, I'm just bummed it's not available in my size.

Elegance of quill stem, curved fork blades, and oversize downtube/non-oversized top tube clashes with disc brakes, larger/modern tire size and ridiculous MTB fork crown.

This, not a super well thought-out design aesthetically.

Also, it's becoming a pet peeve how many small bike companies are happy to feed into and profit off the MUSA and small-business hype and then go and make their frames in the East (Crust also does this and copies Paragon dropouts in the process). Another generation learns to wrap themselves in the flag while quietly screwing over their countrymen...

Did you check out stack and reach measurements?

Velo Orange has always been upfront about their choice to manufacture offshore and I haven't purchased as much from them as a result, but like in many cases it may be the best/only option.

Since when did this become the PATRIOT act approved bikes thread

M?

Keep bike out boring politics!

Yeah I guess I'd keep my custom Geekhouse looking clean too if I had one

Did you check out stack and reach measurements?

Yeah, 57 is too small, 60 is just a hair too big.

Cockpit is a bit of a mess but I would love to commute on this.

Front light bothers me.

The guard might be braced/reinforced but otherwise it seems like a bouncy light and untidy, unfinished looking wiring is an expensive price to pay for bringing it what, an inch and a half(?) forward of where a proper crown mount would have put it. (Yes I realise the fork might not be drilled all the way through but it’s full custom build, deal with it).

I really like a lot of what comes out of Talbot, not too fussed about this though. The wiring, silver headset jars with the black cockpit, and does the downtube need to have such girth?

does the downtube need to have such girth?

Some men need to compensate, and that's alright.

As in "ya im rly a gorilla"?

The new troll is sooo awesome 🤤 it even does that weird Jan Heine 26 rando setup

Yeah

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Rekt @jaap

Sort that cable mess out and I'll ride it.

This.

Not to mention how much of a ball ache that would be to pack for transport.