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So for the people around here who have been following [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/just-riding-along-3 ]the demise of the handjob[/url] and my first world problems about [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/what-hardtail-to-replace-a-borked-handjob ]what to get after it[/url], I am proud to annouce that I have finally found something that I like 😀
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It's a [url= http://www.sobre-bikes.com/accueil.html ]Sobre multi[/url]
Nice color (epoxy), nice tubing (rustproof treatment), there is something nice and it, some finnesse only a french company could provide ;). And not to spoil it, the geometry is ace.
It is also available for big blokes
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395Euro?
You could get something really nice for that.
ITs is really nice, you should see it in the flesh. Bloke are top, ride a lot and know their stuff. About the cheapest you can get around here too. The multi manage to finish THE race so it hads to its badge of honour 😉
Re sprayed Dialled Alpine?
Erm, are they not just two different models rather than sizes?
Sobre Singles and Dads seem to be rather popular around here and TBH they are nice bikes in the flesh. Nice no-frills rigid fork too.
Chouette Juan.
I've seen one in a shop in Grenoble, not that model, but the quality esp. the finishing looked great.
Looks nice but the head angle looks pretty steep.
I don't know the specs but that bike looks very similar to the Evil Sovereign.
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Drop out different, tubing different, ISCG mounts, different... Humm hardly the sames.
It's made of triangles Juan- EXACTLY THE SAME.
27.2 seatpost - hmm
The top one is ace because its green. The orange one is nice too.
Look nice Juan. Enjoy.
LOL at northwind. Andyl what is wrong with 27.2 exactly? The ornage one (the DAD) aloows you to use a tapered fork with an external headset IIRC.
Yes now the terrible dilema is, getting a job and then getting the bike or selling the frame + fork of the FS and then getting it with the money I got from the sale, humm choices choices 😀
69.5deg HA, 12.25" BB, 17" CS and made from plain old Cr-Mo with a 520 sticker for the front half. E395
O_O inbred:
70deg HA, 12.25" BB, 17" CS, and made from plain old Cr-Mo with a DN6 sticker. £139.
Humm looks like brant has let his mates out. First are the on-one rustproof treated? Do the on-ones comes with an epoxy paint? Do the one actually comes with reynolds tubing? Are on-one design by nice passionate people? I think not. Do you have to take a ridiculously long seatpost (so long that nothing standard workd for me) on the sobre bikes? Nope either.
That looks rather lovely. Just like your good self, juan.
I better not have a go on it, might cost me money 🙂
juan - MemberHumm looks like brant has let his mates out. First are the on-one rustproof treated? Do the on-ones comes with an epoxy paint? Do the one actually comes with reynolds tubing?
Child's poster paint rather than epoxy. Buuut, they're both gaspipe. Reynolds 520 is their 4130 cromo line, made under licence in Taiwan. Nothing special or even interesting about it. DN6 is also boggo Taiwanese 4130 with a sticker on. The only relevant differences will be the spec of the individual pipe, rather than the material.
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Humm looks like brant has let his mates out.
[i]Never met him[/i]
First are the on-one rustproof treated?
[i]Does overspray in the tubes count[/i]
Do the on-ones comes with an epoxy paint?
[i]It's paint, O-O is a bit crap, but you can always powdercoat it, on the other hand water based is going to be nicer to the environment than epoxy[/i]
Do the one actually comes with reynolds tubing?
[i]they're both tiawanese Cr-Mo, I've no idea if the 520 tubeset is custom butted or off the shelf, but they'll probably be the same metal and O-
O's is custom butted[/i]
Are on-one design by nice passionate people?
[i]seem to be, and they've designed a near identical product so that means they're pretty equal as designers, either that or got lucky or copied the same geometry of almost every XC bike since the mid 90's.[/i]
Do you have to take a ridiculously long seatpost (so long that nothing standard workd for me) on the sobre bikes?
[i]it's hardly a designers fault if you pick the wrong size[/i]
Just sayign you could save £260, whether you want to is up to you.
it's hardly a designers fault if you pick the wrong size
Well if I follow the on-one website I should ride a 16".
Overspray in the tube is not the same as chemical rustproofing as used in the car industrie. Sobre uses reynolds tubing, so quite different from taiwanese stuff.
Plus and that is a big plus for me, on-one are web only, so a no no for me as basically when something goes worng there is nothing you can do but hope.
Dezb you're more than welcome to hop on a plane and come and test ride it 😉