Genesis Equalibrium Riders

sketchley

Have you noticed the small dent at the bottom of the drive side chain stay on the inside next to the chain? As I found out when I took mine back to the LBS to get it checked out, they have all got them and it's completely normal, something to do with protecting the frame if the chain jumps! :oops:

blkmcs

Sketchley wrote:

Have you noticed the small dent at the bottom of the drive side chain stay on the inside next to the chain? As I found out when I took mine back to the LBS to get it checked out, they have all got them and it's completely normal, something to do with protecting the frame if the chain jumps! :oops:

I only noticed it on mine last week when I took the wheels off for cleaning.
Nice to know that it is normal.

UndercoverElephant

It's quite common on steel frames, as they're made out of straight tubes, you need to take a dink out there otherwise a large chainring would scrape the paint.

jonny_trousers

Equilibrium*

Still excited to see what plans are afoot for the 2012 Equilibrium

UndercoverElephant

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

Equilibrium*

Still excited to see what plans are afoot for the 2012 Equilibrium

As far as I know it's just a price-hike for the existing bikes and introducing a new, Sora equipped Equilibrium 00. Oh, and the 10 is now battleship grey.

http://road.cc/content/news/39332-first ... hifers-are

jonny_trousers

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

Equilibrium*

Still excited to see what plans are afoot for the 2012 Equilibrium

As far as I know it's just a price-hike for the existing bikes and introducing a new, Sora equipped Equilibrium 00. Oh, and the 10 is now battleship grey.

http://road.cc/content/news/39332-first ... hifers-are

Thanks for the link. I have to say, I'm not that impressed with their full builds. Given the quality of components, it really is beginning to sound like an over-priced bike. Bizarre to see that the most outstanding part of the Equilibrium (the frame), however, is to remain very competitively priced. It will be interesting to see what paint scheme the frame alone is to come in, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I will have built my steel winter bike up with Tokyo Fixed's Wide Open before it comes out anyway.

blkmcs

UndercoverElephant wrote:

It's quite common on steel frames, as they're made out of straight tubes, you need to take a dink out there otherwise a large chainring would scrape the paint.

Oops, just read Sketchley's post a little more carefully and realised that in fact the dent on mine is on the seat stay not the chain stay. :oops:
It would take a very large chainring to scrape the paint at that position.

sketchley

Oops, my mistake I'm getting my stays mixed up. The dent I was referring too is on the seat stay.