Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Newness on the Horizon at Swobo

I'm a fan of the Swobo Sanchez even though I've never ridden one or even seen one in person.  I think it has great lines, some nice touches, and a killer price tag.  As awesome as it looks, I have no intentions of purchasing one, but would be incredibly tempted if they released something similar meant for hitting the dirt.  Deciding that this was a brilliant idea, I sent them an email and through a brief exchange found out some interestingness on the horizon at Swobo.

I found out that they are redesigning all of their bikes with 700c wheels to fit 45c tires and some will have canti brake mounts, to be released later this year.  Sweet.

I would love to build up a SSCX version with the bright orange paint using Bruce Gordon's Rock 'n Road tires, silver Thomson stem & post, green King headset, green King hubs laced to polished silver Velocity A23 rims, and other assorted goodness.  Perhaps add a Paul crankset and Paul MiniMoto brakes activated by TRP RRL SR retro levers with gum hoods.  Mmmm...

A bit more info, straight from our email exchange:
"So, if you follow him, you'll know a bit about the Divine. We're doing that bike first as a US made. We've been working out the kinks and headed into production. Limited though in terms of the US market. We'll take that info though and head to Taiwan and have the new Sanchez's built on the platform as well as our other 700c bikes."

Sounds like some great stuff will soon be coming from Swobo.

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