Starting sometime in 2011 or 2012 Grant had some frames built with a second set of chainstays that extended from the added diagonal tube. These extra chainstays eventually morphed into a decorative option where the stays bent whimsically in opposing directions. The "tentacular" stays made it onto a few bombadils, the pre-order appaloosa models, and Leisel's custom, among others. As this blue bike is a prototype is could be missing the special stays as a future cost saving measure, or as a cost/time reduction for prototyping. We will just have to wait and see.
I have a hard time seeing the advantage of this bike model over the Cheviut or the Bombadil special order model. That said, it looks like it is going to be a great bicycle and I am sure everyone who buys one will be more than pleased. Jason > On Mar 12, 2014, at 9:43 AM, iamkeith <keithhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > By "octopus" stays, are you guys referring to the twin, Joe Breeze-style > diaga-tubes? If so, I agree that those were much more beautiful on Liesl's > frame, than the single diagatube. Seems like it could potentially save > MORE cost too, by eliminating one big and rather intricate lug. > > >> On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 6:56:45 AM UTC-6, Ron Mc wrote: >> JL and Anne, I think the Octopus stays on Liesl's custom was a frame size >> constraint, but made for a gorgeous work of art. This one is already in my >> size, and its killing me... >> >>> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:33:38 PM UTC-5, JL wrote: >>> No tentacular stays? Cost saving measure? >>> >>> Jason >>> >>> > On Mar 11, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Christopher Murray <chrispm...@gmail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> > >>> > Check it out in all it's blue-ness! >>> > >>> > http://rivbike.tumblr.com >>> > >>> > Cheers! >>> > Chris >>> > >>> > -- >>> > 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
