Well, I said I wasn’t gonna talk about Spanish bottom brackets anymore—and I probably won’t. Much. But I couldn’t resist using that post title:

Anyway, Darcy talked some more about Macneil’s choice of the Spanish BB standard here, and the discussion got interesting in the comments section of the original post, with Taj talking about blowing up bearings and JPR coming up with his own modest proposal. If that discussion were to continue—either in this comment section or that one—it wouldn’t be a bad thing. Personally, I still feel like it would be nice if we could decide on one bottom bracket bearing standard. After all, we’re pretty settled on 1 1/8″ integrated headsets and 25.4mm seatposts, and no one complains about either of those infringing on their rights to free design. (Obviously any company could feel free to make frames that took, say, 27.0mm seatposts and—what’s that? Standard already tried that? Yes, and we all saw how that turned out.)

Rob Wise has a new frame from Volume that doesn’t have any holes drilled in the seattube. Whew. I actually saw it a month or so back when Rob was in NYC, but thought shooting photos of his bike would be a little presumptious. Plus, I didn’t have my camera with me.

The funny thing is, it’s actually three ounces lighter that the First Blood, his first signature frame, even without the “silencer” holes. Eat it, Rambo.

So yeah, new Eastern forks. Terrific. Just a few questions/comments:

• What exactly are “heaven drops”?
• Please put the CNC controls down.
• I understand that a capped tube with a hole cut in the cap is stronger than an uncapped one, but I still don’t get it.
• That ‘original’ “Hangfree” dropout design? Yeah, Sunday sort of did that first.
• I’m still not entirely sure why you’d buy a fork not made by S&M or Odyssey, especially one that weighs less than two pounds.
• When does the titanium version come out?

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One for the weekend. I feel like I posted this before, but what the hell.

Almost forgot! Either Gary Ellis or Jody Donnelly is selling his bike on eBay. Tragic.

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