New (ish...) product!

It was in... somewhere, a while back, that Sean Burns is now helping out with Metal full time now, and that Metal are being helped out with their overseas manufacture by WTP - anyways, Sean's new signature frame is coming along pretty well by the looks of things, as well as the new 8.3" rise bars:





Standard have also got all their new parts up on their site. Still don't really understand why, if you're trying to make a frame light, you'd just cut back on excess material instead of making the tubing really thin? Who knows.

The new Standard STA.

I mentioned it a post or two ago, and here is the new Standard STA lighter version thing. For those interested, it's not all heat-treated.



Part of me thinks this is a joke, as one of the people who saw the 'sneak pics' was repeatedly going on about how awesome the new frame looked, so we clearly haven't been looking at the same photograph.

Oh Dear #1

Del-nonfashiontrailscompany-uxe are releasing a seat/post combo. Got on issue with that, just seems very strange coming from Deluxe, of all companies, bearing in mind phrases like "No bonkers bells and whistles which will be out of fashion in two weeks' time" appearing on their site.

What do the following all have in common with this post?

G-Sport's casse-"Ratchet" hub only being available in 36H for the first batch (That's right - a rear wheel, in 36h...).

S&M releasing - for a time - the lightest frame available (After ripping 'trendy' riders for buying fashionable products).

Odyssey having Sunday using their manufacturing processes, their design team - look at the pics of G's early frames, and an original Sunday frame - and so on (Odyssey: "We aren't a frame company").

Standard releasing a S.T.A. (That's Stronger Than All, for those unable to work out acronyms) that weighs less than 4.5lbs.

Answers on a postcard...