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"Just gonna wheel my HHSB onto the beach to take photos. I can't ride you see, I have no pedals".
Seconded. Difficult enough to ride track bikes on sand, let alone with pedals. HHSBs need gritty urban backdrops, like graffiti or hookers, and pedals, to escape from the po po
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Why do they give their bikes those slack angles? Would've thought their customer base would be into tight angles aggressive acceleration etc.
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That's a 45mm rake fork with a 73* headtube.
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Why do they give their bikes those slack angles? Would've thought their customer base would be into tight angles aggressive acceleration etc.
They say it's to make them better for riding on the street, I'd much prefer to see some tighter stuff from them, with less triangle designs on it.
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Last time we went through this issue Andy Ellis had some reasonably erudite comments to make on the subject....
Dosnoventa bikes might be good for, how did someone put it... "Street shredding" But it aint true to what this is all about. Track / Tarck bikes are track bikes on the street, if you don't have pedal over lap then you aint the real deal. If you can't handle track geometry in a street environment, then you don't get the respect of the ones that can. It's a whole other league as far as i'm concerned.
Track bikes / fixed gear are / is not meant to be easy to ride on the streets. If you are a company that is making bikes that are easier to ride for the masses, then you are only in it to make money.
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Why do they give their bikes those slack angles? Would've thought their customer base would be into tight angles aggressive acceleration etc.
Whilst I had a good chuckle at what their customer base might entail, in the name of good balanced argument I shall repost this image....
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he was just test riding though, bike was borrowed from somebody else (probably a dosnoventa guy).
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Why do they give their bikes those slack angles? Would've thought their customer base would be into tight angles aggressive acceleration etc.
They say it's to make them better for riding on the street, I'd much prefer to see some tighter stuff from them, with less triangle designs on it.
They probably just want cool bikes that feel like hybrid/touring/audax and not "quirky and akward" (track bikes)
you guys are forgetting that their original frame wasn't designed by them, it was a Dolan prototype that got rejected. I honestly doubt that they have had any input into the frames past the paint jobs.
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I fully agree with the above statement, but don't blame Dos for being in it for the money, why else would they be in it!
True - it's more of a judgement on their customers....
It's a tough gig to design a HHSB and not be ridiculed like Dosnoventa... Mash and Macframa RHPs being 2 respectable attempts that initially spring to mind. The majority of decent HHSB's were originally designed as track bikes with no thought for street usage (Bianchi, Cannondale etc and obviously anything NJS)
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i wouldnt say no to one. Not every bike company thinks "i know lets build a bike that everyone will like" it doesnt happen because everyone has different tastes and deeper pockets.
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if dosnoventa was to make a bike like this for example would you be a fan?
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^^was that your excuse to re-repost?
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Do not want.
Look at that fucking slack clearance and terrible top tube decal!