actually the lugs on the romulus look just like the lugs on the quickbeam...
On Dec 3, 8:07 am, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > I had a canti-rom for awhile. It was a wonderful bicycle for long road > rides, and I liked the simple lugs, 1-color paint, etc. > > Actually, the lugs on the Atlantis and other Japanese frames got much > more ornate toward the end. Perhaps GP thought that fancier lugs would > help justify the rapidly increasing prices during the last couple > years, or maybe the extra cost in the lugwork seemed tiny compared to > the extra cost from currency exchange. In any case, the simpler, > rounded lugs of ~2004/2005-ish were more of a middle point than an > ultimate end of the evolution of these frames. > > On Dec 3, 7:08 am, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I just received the canti-rom frame/fork last night. It is in rather > > stunning shape and after looking it over I have to ask: > > > Does anyone know why riv stopped making the simpler lug design? The > > more ornate lugs like on the AHH and atlantis are beautiful but there > > is something nicely understated about the ones on the romulus. I don't > > know about anyone else but if there was a bike riv was going to bring > > back as a taiwanese-built model I think this would be a good choice. > > It's just beautiful. > > > -sv- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
