Re: unabashed plug, Crumpton

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 Chalo <chalo.colina@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> dustoyevsky wrote:
> >
> > I guess this would fit in the "local pride" category:
> >
> >
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1137960420?bctid=1539...
> >
> > Yeah yeah, I know the source. Offered in spite of.
> >
> > Suffice to say, the guy who owns this bike is somewhat patiently
> > waiting for it to re-appear from the bowels of ****pping (and Bicycling
> > Magazine).
> 
> Funny-- I've been part of the cycling scene here in Austin for over
> twenty years, minus the years of 2001-2006 that I spent in Seattle.
> I've never even heard of Nick Crumpton or his bikes.  I guess he must
> limit his public interface to only the scowling plum-smugglers of our
> fair city.

>  I mean, can't someone buy a plastic road bike
> basically indistinguishable from that one just about anywhere for a
> whole lot less money?

But the Crumpton SL is stiff, yet compliant. The Seven was stiffer, but 
not as compliant.

Holy moly. I hadn't watched the video before I wrote this. At 1:26 on 
the video, the reviewer talks about how the frame has the stiffness of a 
race bike, but the comfort of a "plush" (?) bike.

I thought we were only joking here when we accused Bicycling of doing 
that.

Functionally, I think the mass-produced bikes (pick one) are similar, 
but the reviewer also praises its aesthetic qualities, and I can't find 
hi-res enough photos to comment either way.

I'm pretty uninterested in the aesthetics of bicycles that are otherwise 
functional, but it's a legitimate differentiation.

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