At some point, you have to wonder if Jan Heine has anyone around him who are brave enough to call out a bad idea
by chiboulevards
At some point, you have to wonder if Jan Heine has anyone around him who are brave enough to call out a bad idea
by chiboulevards
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Yes, because that stretch of shift cable from the cockpit to the front derailleur weighs *so much*!
Weak. Grab the chain with your hand like a real man
🤷♂️ Jan blows a lotta hot air but weird cranks making weird crank shit is what it’s all about.
On motorcycles these are called suicide shifters …. for a reason.
Tbh I love it and would get one if my frame could take it!
Rene Hearse
I bet all the extra chain weighs more than the derailleur.
At this point he should take all that Panaracer money and just start making and selling replicas of the 75 lbs bikes the Buffalo Soldiers used to ride. Can’t get any more retro and traditional than that.
I think it’s sick, I always wanted to make one of these out of an old FD
I love how the marketing image shows what looks to be the sketchiest experience you can have on two wheels. If I was clipped in on a tandem you better believe I’d want my partner to keep two hands on the bars instead of reaching under his leg to shift.
a long flight with you between him and Grant “everything was better 40 years ago” Peterson would be interesting…
Bad idea?
It’s a fucking ridiculous tandem drive chain setup and absurd front derailleur system.
Only a bellend who wears plus-fours (I imagine a waxed handlebar moustache, braces and beardy hipster) would go out of their way to take something that works and then make it crap and try to upsell it as “light” whilst having full mudguards and panniers.
They deserve whatever injuries are coming their way resulting from having to perform contortions like that to shift the chain.
And the canvas panniers just scream “punch me in the face”.
This sums it up beautifully.
https://youtu.be/xUJsRMaTiLU?si=d9hNsg70uvpwX0xX
The combination of olden times cuffed brown pants with school shoes from an elementary school in rural England in 1970’a run by some very purist anglicans that forgot to leave for America a couple of hundred years ago with Skins(tm) socks is certainly a choice.
Edit: typos
Rene out here getting ideas from BicyclePubes.
Jan’s last email sound like he was Deep Throat investigating watergate and he’s talking about rims…he’s lost the plot awhile ago. And I like his tires and think he did a ton for making bikes comfy and etc etc but dear god he’s sometimes a parody of himself
https://preview.redd.it/oqigq01kankf1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24b52afc49107d271a86ce5cbe20e5bd232c55ad
JH is a master at marketing. His beloved Rene Herse flexes like linguine and all of a sudden he discovers “planning” and it’s a good thing. He sells some neat stuff but it’s mostly just marketing and about how it makes you feel. Nothing wrong with that.
well, it’s not April 1st…
Yo, are those guys wearing clipless shoes with toe clips?
There’s a famous quote about game design that says “given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game”. I think this can apply to a lot of things (i.e. cycling) so it’s awesome to see the opposite sometimes.