Interesting that the model marketed for more aggressive riders, the Revolt, makes a very abrupt fact that this bike has a lower BB height with that dogleg chain stay which is not on the Anyroad. An actual measurement of BB heights are not published and not ascertained simply with a scale as they have cut the pictures to eliminate the lower wheel and/or ground. They almost seem to be actively avoiding any scalar defining it for comparison.
The target use of these bike do appear to give a nod to Riv/Grant Peterson with (among other verbage) lower BBs on these country bikes for the lycra team kit market. If Chain slap is that evil, becoming so insidious between the micro categorizations of "sport adventure" and "No mission too great", an old Cunningham-designed Nishiki had an alternate answer: http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/albums/nishiki/nishiki_fan_Ariel.jpg Andy Cheatham PIttsburgh On Monday, March 10, 2014 7:02:19 PM UTC-4, Hetchins52 wrote: > > The "AnyRoad" is part of the Sport>Adventure category and advertises 32 mm > tires. > The similarly priced "Revolt 1", part of the Performance>Endurance group, > is advertised thusly: > "Dirt Roads. Unpaved Mountain Passes. Gravel Grinders. No Mission is Too > Great for the Adventurous New Revolt." > And, it has 700 x 50c tires! > [ > http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-ca/bikes/model/revolt.0/17670/73458/#overview] > Both of these bikes are in the X-Road>Men group which also includes > Performance>Cyclo-Cross bikes (and there is a women's vertical of groups > for Cyclo-Cross and Sport, but not Endurance). Coming in below Adventure is > Lifestyle>Comfort. They seem to be hitting a lot of target words for > categories. > I think that the marketing is changing, but the result seems to be an > incredible proliferation of sub-groupings. And competition and fitness are > still big emphases. > > David Lipsky > Berkeley > > PS. I like that the "AnyRoad 1" fork blades are made of "Composite-Grade > Composite"! What do their competitors use? > > On Monday, March 10, 2014 11:06:37 AM UTC-7, Cecily Walker wrote: >> >> A friend sent me a link to this bike this morning, and I couldn't help >> noticing how many Riv-ish points were hit in the bike design and marketing >> copy. Notably: >> >> >> - ..... >> >> -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
