Leah The cutouts in the mermaid colored Platy BB shell reduces the BB shell weight and compensates for the slightly longer lug section. The mermaid Platy BB shell probably weighs the same as the BB shell in the raspberry colored Platy. Have fun riding both
John Hawrylak Woodstown NJ On Friday, April 8, 2022 at 9:06:26 AM UTC-4 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > I stumbled upon something very interesting. I was taking my mermaid > Platypus out for a ride and I happened to notice what I thought was a large > drop of water on the bottom bracket lug. It wasn’t - it’s a cut-out. It > looked so foreign to me, so I looked at my raspberry Platypus. > > Totally different lugs. > > My raspberry is a sample bike. It made sense to me that it might have a > different, simpler lug. But then I started looking on Instagram. Now, who > takes photos of the bottom bracket lug (is that the name for it? I don’t > know.)? Almost no one. But I found a mermaid Platy on Blue Lug’s account > and it has the same lug as my raspberry bike. So, it is not because my bike > is a sample. It seems some Platys went out with the cut-out lug, and some > went out with the plain lug. I’ll attach photos in the following post… > > Which lug does your Platypus have? Why do you think they built the bikes > this way? > Leah > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/52f0819a-8643-405a-a087-bc26aaf13c52n%40googlegroups.com.
