Well then. Here on Bikerumor today’s pretty much the carbon disc ‘cross frame I was considering bringing to market, except Performance made some frame decisions I would not have made–and I think putting white bar tape on a ‘cross bike makes about as much sense as bathing in your toilet.
But really I don’t know whether to be encouraged or discouraged. I’ve sort of made a habit of always doing the exact opposite of anything Performance does (including make shit-tons of money). Now my life is in turmoil or something.
Certainly looking like 2013 is going to be the year of the photocopied carbon fiber disc ‘cross frameset instead of the year we spend wading through endless clones of 650b carbon hardtails. But I’m OK with that. I really like frames like this. I just want to make a nicer one.
Meanwhile, can anyone tell me why Hammerhead Bikes has a page dedicated to Charles Coker and the great Titus-derived bike he created, and then offers a 29er? Coker’s 100x was a long travel Racer-X. It still had 26-inch wheels.
But Coker wasn’t nearly crazy enough to create a Titus Racer-X with 29-inch wheels. Convincing Chris Cocalis of Titus to build not only a new front triangle, but also an entirely new chainstay and seatstay assembly for bigger wheels would’ve been the work of a madman, and building a bike like that more than a decade ago would’ve been pure stupidity. Only a raving lunatic would think to put big wheels on a Racer-X to create some unholy monster truck of a bike that absolutely hauled ass through the medieval graveyard-looking rock gardens of Southwestern PA. Frankly, it’d be tough for me to even imagine a bike like that if weren’t for the revolutionary new Hammerhead Thumper 29, or this bike I keep in my garage for old time’s sake.
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