Sunday, June 28, 2009

Feedback needed

Now is the time, apparently, to buy a new bike frame. In two weeks, all the Freds and Freddies who rode STP, loved the event, but hated their bike will be crowding the shops, looking to replace their bikes. So, the wheels are in motion, so to speak, on my new frame.

Now, I’m not normally a sloping top tube kind of girl. (Even the top tube on my part of the tandem is flat!) I’m told that the aesthetic is changing and if I want bike bling, an extra handful of seat post is the way to go. The drawing of my new frame is below. Tell me loyal readers...is the sloping top tube cool, or will it make me a Freddie?

The geometry is only half the picture. The paint will be equally important. What say you all to the proposed paint job?