We are the Bowmen/women - Bowman Cycles Appreciation Thread

Cool just 1 ta, I can PayPal you the extra or something, couple of quid OK?

Gnuh, just understood the Muswell Hill thing, hours after I posted the hangers 🙄 hey, it's been a long week okay?

Leave it with me, I'll get it off to you in the morning

Jamie

Excellent, that's great thanks very much 👌🏼

Hey

any other 3c owners about? Any idea what hanger i'd be needing? Had a look on wheels manufacturing briefly but they don't seem to do bowman :(

Cheers

There's a BETD one that looks like it might suit, or have you looked through gearmechhanger for one that looks right?

There will almost certainly be one that looks and is the same but is standard for another manufacturers frame. Palace R has the same hanger as a CAAD10. Weald is the same as some RONDO model, etc.

Ah the issue is I have bought the frame in the clearance auction and it's sat at a friends house, but from what I've googled it doesn't come with a hanger...

Managed to source a headset from Jamie on this thread but alas he had no 3c hangers

My 3c came with a hanger pre-installed so fingers crossed you'll be ok!

Re the headset please check the bearings I sent you as I only noticed after I sent the first few out that someone had put slightly different sized bearings in the same bearing pack. I've gone through and sorted them out now but there's a chance the first few headset kits I sent out were wrong. Let me know and if necessary I'll send you a replacement.

Jamie

Oh yeah I messaged you on ebay I think with the dimensions!

Did your 3c also come with the cable routing bits installed too?

Yes, and a little box of blanking plates I think if you want to go di2 or something

I think the one on the right is the pilgrims disc on that I'm after. Have you still got it? Will PM if you do.

Does anybody know what led to this? I mean, it was a well trusted brand and there’s been demand for bikes.

I know there can be so many factors leading towards insolvency but you’d have thought a buyer might have popped up.

Whoever posted the Bidspotter link has so far cost me about eight hours of my life btw. It’s addictive. I nearly bought a truck full of bathroom stuff.

I reckon a run on the bank type situation.
Total guess
But I imagine they had trouble getting frames shipped to the UK and they would 100% have had trouble finding groupsets for them. Following this they have upset customers who aren't prepared to wait and demand their money back. It's not like the customers money sits in a little pot waiting until delivery so they may have had some major cash flow issues

Ahhh. Yes that checks out. Bike shop told me the other day they could do some work as long as I bought the parts from Wiggle because all components are going to big manufacturers like Canyon etc.

Hydraulic hoses from Maddison are next expected in June.

I've got Sram AXS cassettes on order that are due in July 2024

Bowman gets the Hambini treatment

https://youtu.be/YTDQ9vtoxTo

Punching down a bit, as the company is bust.. but at least he won’t see a lawsuit

Saw this video yesterday and was flabbergasted by how absolutely ridiculous this particular frame was. It's crazy that they let something like this leave the factory premises. Hope noone gets injured riding/crashing one of these. Pity, these bikes actually looked pretty cool.

Fuck Hambini and his moronic incel fanbois. Dont be click his links and certainly dont be the cunt that shares them.

Lots of failures, and QA issues. Know 5 people that had various iterations of the palace. 3 had issues. Shame as they looked nice…

I've never heard of this person - what is his deal?

He's a petulant, misogynistic oxygen thief who deserves no success or promotion

https://road.cc/content/news/shockjock-vid-seeks-refute-sexism-claim-reinforces-it-272869

https://ridewriterepeat.com/2022/01/26/six-bloopers-of-being-a-woman-in-the-cycling-industry/

I’d never heard that about him before, what a truly horrible person

Wish the guy acted like a normal human being because he's doing a great job exposing shitty companies. And if you truly believe that you're better than him you could try not calling other forum members cunts for posting a relevant video here.

Hard agree that he acts like an imbecile (which he clearly isn't), but he's an incel?