Want A Damn Good Reason To Feel Shitty About Your Classic Fat City Or IF?

This clueless dumbfuck mighta touched it!  Yuck.  That sorta shit don't wash off, and Peter Verdone is really slimy.  Besides being completely ignorant, he seems to be a real asshole.  Melt down your classic bike.  Let it rust.  It's cursed with exceptional American idiocy. 

The Rivendell he hates on so hard is probably owned by a rider who does more miles in a month than that idiot Verdone has logged in his life, since anyone who's ridden a bike for realz knows what works and what is bullshit.  Verdone only knows the bullshit and has no idea about what really works and why.  He's probably a really enthusiastic Trump supporter or rabid fluffer of Ben Carson.  Such is that state of inane America.

And Now The Twits Are All A Twitter Over Moots Maybe Going The Way Of Serotta And/Or IF

Seriously.  But why?  Moots hasn't been anything special for many many years.  I am amazed at their ability to sell very expensive titanium frames, and that's fine, just fine, but to my eye their bikes are either nothing special or heinously fucking ugly.  Moots frames lack elegance, and I think that comes from the small factory aspect of the brand.  Why buy a Moots if you want something special and be forced to pay a huge premium on top of the already very dear frame price when you can buy what I consider a legitimate Moots frame, Eriksen, or a titanium frame with much more elegance and is all custom that comes from a true custom builder, Carl Strong?  That's the question.  Skip Moots and let 'em go the way of Serotta if that's their fate, and get a much better and better looking ti frame if that's what makes you all wet and sticky atmo from Strong or Eriksen.  Your welcome.

custom carbon-ti is hard to do, too, obviously

somewhere along the lines independent fabrication went way off the rails as far as my taste is concerned.  their attempt at a custom carbon road frame looked awful to me, cheap and ill-considered.  now this thing is their newest hot product, a carbon-ti frame that is inelegant at best.  that carbon tube is in exactly the wrong place, and i can already imagine the worst-case failure scenario.  mixed material frames are stupid regardless, but at least a holland exogrid looks cool and not like a piece of garbage.  i'd never buy a mixed material frame; the full ti and full carbon frames are much better in every way, and i don't wanna pick on indyfab.  they were a cool brand once, and for a while there the indyfab hardtail was among the nicest run of the mill handmade frames out there.  i always preferred the more dynamic designs like the eastern woods research, but the indyfab hardtail was everything this abortion is not: simple, straightforward, elegant.  i understand that independent fabrications is no longer that honest, worker-owned company that started in 1995, but i don't know how they think this is a winner.