Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Holy Shit, Zathras! Check Out This Lynskey!

What's a Lynskey?  What's an Uggams?  Apparently a Lynskey is something Zathras has been waiting for.  I don't know what the details are on these yet, and the road frames look like slopey-toptube shit--and for road racing frames they probably won't come in enough sizes to make it work for an experienced road rider/racer anyway--but the hardtails could be fuckin' killer for the price.  A nice titanium hardtail for eleven hundred bucks is pretty sweet--and mountain bike riders don't have the expectation of 15 sizes between 48 and 63 centimeters so a four or five size range is pretty standard.  This is the kind of shit Zathras wanted for Serotta, only cheaper!  A cool Serotta hardtail would be a great second frame for someone with a big burly full-squishy bike who wanted a long-lived titanium hardtail, but it looks like Lynskey is ready to kill that market segment.  How the fuck is Lynskey doing it, and why couldn't Serotta lead on this?  Weird.  If the Lynskey frames sell, I would advise them to go with a level-toptube road frame just on looks alone.  Hey, I remember the semi-disposable Litespeed frames 15 years ago; they weren't the greatest ever, but they were pretty fucking good and lots of folks rode the shit out of them all over the place.  Lynskey might be onto something.  And this $1100 stunt might finally kill Serotta Bikes.  Paging Zathras!

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