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Originally Posted by essexman
OOOh God! I was happy with my Agattu until i saw this, i've been lusting after a racer for fun and now i see this.....  |
I don’t think any of you guys should get too excited about the “sporty” Kalkholl yet. I also saw it at Presteigne, in fact I think it was entered in the hill climb…… The frame looked like a standard Pro-Connect to me. It had a high quality SRAM rear derailleur and quality rims, but I can’t see Kalkhoff sourcing components of that quality for a production bike under 2 grand. The rear cassette was 9 speed (I think) – probably 13 up. With a single chainring, this will give a somewhat smaller spread of gears than the Shimano Nexus hub - and I don’t think you could fit a double/triple chainring to the Panasonic system (Flecc?). I now find the range of gears on the Cytronex (which has triple chainrings) a real advantage in these hils.
Still, if Sporty Kalkhoff is on the horizon, I’m sure 50 cycles will tell us. Perhaps it will have a sister bike called posh.
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Chris
1970's Bob Jackson, 1980's Pinarello, 1990's Alves Tandem, 2008 Cytronex Trek