Let's just say I'm in a hurry to buy another bike (for whatever reason).
The new Il Pompino comes as a complete bike (useful now I have no workshop to play) or as a frameset + bits.
Buying the newer complete bike gets you a 120mm spaced rear triangle whereas if you buy the frameset, it comes as the original 135mm spaced rear.
I'm looking for opinions to on going either way.
As I see it 135mm would have more road/mtb hub choice, 120mm more track hub choice. On-One mention something about 120mm letting them run trick cranks so perhaps there was a chainstay clearance issue? 135mm means standard road wheels should work - option for future when I get roadie? Um.. what else..
Condor Cycles are in the back of my mind too - they build some nice road machines with a fixed flavour: http://www.condorcycles.com/
hippy
The new Il Pompino comes as a complete bike (useful now I have no workshop to play) or as a frameset + bits.
Buying the newer complete bike gets you a 120mm spaced rear triangle whereas if you buy the frameset, it comes as the original 135mm spaced rear.
I'm looking for opinions to on going either way.
As I see it 135mm would have more road/mtb hub choice, 120mm more track hub choice. On-One mention something about 120mm letting them run trick cranks so perhaps there was a chainstay clearance issue? 135mm means standard road wheels should work - option for future when I get roadie? Um.. what else..
Condor Cycles are in the back of my mind too - they build some nice road machines with a fixed flavour: http://www.condorcycles.com/
hippy