Another good one Andrew. Bean, nice ride, really personalised to suit your terrain, trails and riding and as said, easy to "pump it up" with a heavier duty set of wheels and tyres. If I'm paying retail in that price range, I'm grabbing a Surly Monkey or Kona Unit, every time, best bang for your buck, frame and fork, but at the price Bean paid for this frame, no way I'd pass it up, even if it is alu ;-)
As to Beans' comment on the wheels and not being able to feel a difference going to 1,450g wheels, I have to ask what wheels he was coming off of, because if I dropped the assumed 600+ grams off my wheelset, I sure as hell can feel the difference. Now not sure if it's apples to apples here, since my weight drop is normally mostly in the rubber dept, i.e. outer most rotating mass, but cannot think going from your "avg" 1900-2000g wheelset to a 1450 set, you'd not feel an overall snappier and more responsiveness from the bike.
June 6, 2022, 11:59 a.m. - Lynx .
Another good one Andrew. Bean, nice ride, really personalised to suit your terrain, trails and riding and as said, easy to "pump it up" with a heavier duty set of wheels and tyres. If I'm paying retail in that price range, I'm grabbing a Surly Monkey or Kona Unit, every time, best bang for your buck, frame and fork, but at the price Bean paid for this frame, no way I'd pass it up, even if it is alu ;-) As to Beans' comment on the wheels and not being able to feel a difference going to 1,450g wheels, I have to ask what wheels he was coming off of, because if I dropped the assumed 600+ grams off my wheelset, I sure as hell can feel the difference. Now not sure if it's apples to apples here, since my weight drop is normally mostly in the rubber dept, i.e. outer most rotating mass, but cannot think going from your "avg" 1900-2000g wheelset to a 1450 set, you'd not feel an overall snappier and more responsiveness from the bike.