AlanW
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Cutting a long story short, but my new Kinesis GF Ti disc frame I collected last weekend has to be returned because "someone" forgot to fully weld one of the bottle bosses!
The current GF Ti disc frame is made to take q/r wheels front and rear and when I was thinking about buying this frame I contacted Kinesis direct and asked if there were any plans to go down the tru axle route as this tends to me the norm for disc framed bikes now (if there is such a thing??)
I was told that they had tried the frame with tru axle wheels and it didn't ride as nice as it did with q/r wheels. Therefore there were no plans to introduce tru axle wheels to this frame.
Going back to my frame and the missing weld, I have now been offered three options:
1) Return the frame and have the bottle boss welded and the frame repolished, turn around time three weeks.
2) There are no more in stock in the UK of the size I need, the next batch is not due until the end of June and I can wait and have another frame.
3) At the same time at the end of June they will be introducing thru axle forks, but NOT the frame, that will remain q/r.
So logic would suggest that I should wait till June and have a complete new frame c/w the latest thru axle forks. But what annouys me is that I asked the question prior to purchasing the frame and told there were no plans to go down the tru axle route. Yet just weeks later, hey presto.....thru axle forks?
So I wonder how long it will be before they do the frame with tru axle wheel location instead of q/r?
In truth I'm in no rush for the frame, so part of me thinks, maybe have a full refund and wait another twelve months, but that seems a bit extreme really as no time will ever be the right time.
But having a thru axle front and q/r just seems like a quick fix not a long term one, or maybe I'm looking to deep at it and I should just shut up, just buy the dam thing, ride it and no dounbt really enjoy it!!
The current GF Ti disc frame is made to take q/r wheels front and rear and when I was thinking about buying this frame I contacted Kinesis direct and asked if there were any plans to go down the tru axle route as this tends to me the norm for disc framed bikes now (if there is such a thing??)
I was told that they had tried the frame with tru axle wheels and it didn't ride as nice as it did with q/r wheels. Therefore there were no plans to introduce tru axle wheels to this frame.
Going back to my frame and the missing weld, I have now been offered three options:
1) Return the frame and have the bottle boss welded and the frame repolished, turn around time three weeks.
2) There are no more in stock in the UK of the size I need, the next batch is not due until the end of June and I can wait and have another frame.
3) At the same time at the end of June they will be introducing thru axle forks, but NOT the frame, that will remain q/r.
So logic would suggest that I should wait till June and have a complete new frame c/w the latest thru axle forks. But what annouys me is that I asked the question prior to purchasing the frame and told there were no plans to go down the tru axle route. Yet just weeks later, hey presto.....thru axle forks?
So I wonder how long it will be before they do the frame with tru axle wheel location instead of q/r?
In truth I'm in no rush for the frame, so part of me thinks, maybe have a full refund and wait another twelve months, but that seems a bit extreme really as no time will ever be the right time.
But having a thru axle front and q/r just seems like a quick fix not a long term one, or maybe I'm looking to deep at it and I should just shut up, just buy the dam thing, ride it and no dounbt really enjoy it!!
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