Mimi - Ebisu Bike review/snippet...

[mimitabby]

I am so excited for you Mimi! I am sure you will be happy with Davidson. For those techie geeks that have been following this, let us know what seat tube angle, top tube length, and wheel size he recommends after your fitting. I am so curious to see what an experienced builder's plans are. Do understand it will take time, and that he may recommend 650c wheels. If he does the terry tellus comes in 28c and is a very nice tire, and schwalbe stelvios come in 23c and are very nice too. While choices are less in 650c than 700c, the choices out there are quite good.

Trisk,
it's kind of interesting; at Elliott bay bikes there are two guys; one (Davidson) told me 650's wouldn't be such a good idea; but the designer guy said they might be better. They know i already have some 700 wheels, but i told them, if it won't work, build me 650's or 26's or whatever they think is best for my size. Tomorrow they will look at my Bianchi and see how it does and doesn't work for me.

[Trekhawk]

Hey Mimi,

I know you're probably going to go Davidson but I thought I'd throw some temptation you're way.. (where's the smiley w/ the horns??)

OOOh.. and he make's em in orange (double horns)



Here's what ChrisK from Velo Orange said about his Ebisu from Jitensha Studio.

Ebisu
When I was starting Velo Orange, and deciding to offer custom randonneur frames, I looked at pretty much every production light touring frame available. The one that impressed me most was the Ebisu from Jitensha Studio. They are designed by a guy who has 30 or 40 years experience designing touring frames, they are built in a one man NJS certified shop in Japan, and the quality is astounding for the price. Plus, you can buy them from stock. I was so impressed I bought one for myself. The paint is not fancy, but if you know frames you will see the quality.

It is the only frame that I think is a real competitor to our frames (but there is a 6-month waiting list for VO frames). Most every other light touring frame is nothing more than an adaptation of a racing frame and that is okay, but far from ideal. They have high trail front ends, are often over-stiff, and far too often the tubes are cooked on the cheaper ones.

Chris

Links to pics of Chris's bike:

http://velo-orange.blogspot.com/2006/03/new-ebisu.html


Evil One aka RD

Nice bike and being an orange fan I just had to look at all the pics.