Submitted by stephane
Kinfolk Lo Pro
Posted on June 1st 2011
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19 Comments Received
June 1st, 2011 @11:29 am
Good Toe stubber. Frame and components stand on their own. Wheel, spokes, graphics, twisted just enough. Nice Piece for the living room.
June 1st, 2011 @5:18 pm
love.
June 2nd, 2011 @10:13 am
Haven’t met a Kinfolk frameset I didn’t like….er uh love.
June 2nd, 2011 @11:48 am
dosn’t having risers defeat the purpose of a lo pro frame coupled with a downward facing stem?
June 2nd, 2011 @12:38 pm
Agreed /\
June 2nd, 2011 @5:52 pm
tight…
June 3rd, 2011 @7:38 am
exactly Ill.those wheels are kind of silly too.Bit too vintage quaint for a modern frame.
June 3rd, 2011 @8:45 am
i like the frame but would look better with drops and the saddle seems a little out of place with the wheel rims and the general silver effect?
June 3rd, 2011 @9:35 am
I couldn’t disagree with illdj more. Sometimes you just want things to look a certain way…so you mix things up to get that look. Nothing wrong with that. So it’s a lo pro frame with a riser….so what. I can dig it. I bet it’s a fun ride. If we all followed the instructions and only colored “inside the lines” all the time, shit would get pretty boring.
June 4th, 2011 @2:19 am
I couldn’t disagree with ng more. Colouring outside the lines looks amateur 99% of the time. Maybe 1% of the time risers like these will look good. 1% of those will look good with a downward angled stem. And 1% of those will look good with a pursuit frame. If my math is correct, that is a 1 in a million chance of those three elements combining and looking good. Through in a completely inappropriate saddle, and you end up with what we in the trade call ‘A Dog’s Breakfast’.
Having said that, even an ugly girl can be a fun ride.
June 4th, 2011 @9:13 am
We’re dangerously close to an argument over personal tastes…which is a waste of time. And now there’s math involved…*sigh* I was trying to speak to the point of personal expression vs. following all the “rules.” Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder. I’m surprised you say that aarcadian since I’d say your ride is definitely outside the lines.
June 4th, 2011 @6:22 pm
Although funny bikes do nothing to tickle my pickle, I feel this Kinfolk has a lot of potential. I can’t help to imagine that this bike would be pretty cool if it had bullhorns, regular spokes and a racier saddle. Instead it is composed of a hodge podge of high dollar components that don’t quite work together. Sort of like having a Porsche 911 with a lifted suspension and chrome 22″ spinners.
June 4th, 2011 @8:25 pm
@ng – yeah, I was just being a dick. I just really get the impression that this bike has little to do with personal taste than with ‘look at me! I have all the cool parts!’. I don’t believe for a second that if you were building, no matter how creative and expressionistic you are feeling, you will still assess each component to make sure it fits with your mental image of how the complete bike looks. As funny as I think those bars look at that angle and rise, on that angled stem, on a lo pro, thats not the real issue here for me. Angles all over the shop may be your thing. The issue is the Brooks. Someone please post a link showing a B17 that looks appropriate on a frame that isn’t vintage looking. Even Brooks themselves sell them as touring saddles. If you have to spent $200 on a seat, at least get one designed for the type of riding you do.
Right, my bit over.
June 4th, 2011 @10:13 pm
Really love the third photo with the omamori.
June 5th, 2011 @11:35 am
It’s a work of art. Not necessarily meant to be 100 percent practical. Agree with Ng for a different reason. Maybe this bar and stem combo put Stephane’s hands exactly where he likes/wants them.
June 5th, 2011 @3:10 pm
If that’s where he wants his hands, why did he get a lo-pro and 650 front wheel then? This is just sad. This build shows that a sublime frame set does not necessarily make a great bike. I suggest to sell the frame to somebody who doesn’t abuse it and builds it up to its grace. Get a vigorelli instead, should be hip enough.
July 22nd, 2011 @12:52 pm
I really love the veuletta twisted spoke rims…
I’ve seen one or two but a set is just nice
February 9th, 2012 @12:06 pm
I think the spokes fucked this bike up. It looks dumb. That, and there is a price tag hanging off the back. Shotgun to the dick.
April 22nd, 2012 @12:26 am
love risers, i ride mostly through nyc traffic and find them …safer cause it gives you the ability to look further than the car infront of you…..
sloman will prob say that i m not a serious rider cause i don t understand aereo…
i also like the look of risers…. i think yours are a bit to wide at the base cause the slope of he rise is to …Soft…?? u know…. it makes your beautiful frame FRONT HEAVY
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Plus…. I don’t know what happened….one morning i woke up and didn’t like brooks any more…………………..
weird……
;_)
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