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02 Jun 2007

It has arriven!

Friday was a pretty cool day I must say. The Rohloff arrived so I sprang down to the post office to pick it up, and The Brown Santa had a rather large package from over the big blue for me. Inside it was this. Well, it didn’t really look like that coz I spent two hours and a big wad of Scotchbrite to make it look like that, but that’ll do for now. What a sensational frame! The lighting is completely wrong and my camera is slowly turning to rubbish, words fail, doesn’t do it justice, all those cliches apply. Every time we do a Ti frame I think to myself “Why aren’t I on Ti?”. Heck, why isn’t everyone on Ti? I mean, just look at that thing. Are we all kidding ourselves, thinking it’s not worth it, too ‘industrial’, too ‘whatever excuse I can think of not to’? We’re all suffering some form of Ti denial, and you can only fondle frames like this for so long before you crack.

Anyway, behold the EBR, or ‘Eastern Bush Research’, as a tip of the hat to the Eastern Woods Reserach that inspired it, and because down here ‘woods’ is something you make a table out of.

This is not going to be a regular addition to the line-up, but I think it’s a great example of what we’re capable of in terms of design and execution. I have a penchant for ‘retro’ bikes from the 80’s, and think things in some ways were a lot more adventurous back then. Not to mention some individual design features back then - with a few tweaks - have certain validity to them, like the kinked downtube on the EBR (Helps 29 fork crowns clear the downtube in the event of a crash) and the dropped top tube to improve standover.

This bike is going to be awesome fully built up, with Hope Discs, a Rohloff, White Bros forks and a whole slew of top shelf goodies gracing her. The wheels are being built right now, so hopefully midweek we’ll have some cool build pix. Stay tuned!

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Posted by warwick @ 6:19 am

2 Responses to “It has arriven!”

  1. cs124 Says:
    June 2nd, 2007 at 7:30 am

    Very sweet. I’m diggin’ the idea of a Rohloff equipped MTB. What gear range can you get with it?

  2. thylacine Says:
    June 2nd, 2007 at 9:03 am

    Yeah, I love the Rohloff but they’d have the get the weight down and add a trigger shifter before I pony up. Which, apparently, they’re doing.
    In terms of gears, I believe you can’t go under a certain ratio, but aside from that it’s a regular front chainring and a rear cog.

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