Seven Cycles Announces Mudhoney Pro Carbon-Titanium Cyclocross Frame

Why is anyone continuing to release new CX bikes that don’t support discs?

Gorgeous- but at 10k one would think that most cyclists are 1 percenters……

nothing sub-pop about 10k is there? don’t use that name for your bike 7. fail.

That thing is beautiful, and it doesn’t need disc mounts:

1. I have 6 sets of wheels to choose from. 2 tubular, 4 clincher. All 130mm spacing. Not going to try to replace at least 3 sets by going to discs.

2. The clincher sets can be used in the summer on my road bike and my wife’s road and tri bike.

3. When warming up at a race I currently have a road wheel I can swap for riding the trainer. Would need a new 135mm wheel (clincher) solely for use w/ the trainer. Or I could just bring my road bike to every race. Terribly inconvenient (or expensive.)

4. Disc tolerances are fickle. Say I have 2 different manufacturers’ hubs on my wheelsets… and I need to change a wheel before or during a race, those tolerances may not work well with the new disc.

5. My team sometimes swaps wheels if someone needs something a little different for the conditions or gets a flat. That may no longer be an option.

6. As stated before, it’s overkill. And when conditions are ice or slick mud, I think a light touch on the brakes is going to lock up the wheel. Of course, I’ve never ridden with them. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t see the need. Hassle is going to outweigh performance for a while.

@Yeager: I’m not gonna claim it needs disc mounts either, because I’m gonna buy it, but given the direction of things I would say it should have them.

All your reasoning is drawn from what would be inconveniences to YOU. So you invested a ton and now your stuff is becoming obsolete. That doesn’t mean this bike should be come obsolete as standard.

1. Did you buy all those wheels at once? Didn’t think so. And no one is asking you to go to discs.
2. That convenience is not a justified reason. And eventually road bikes will go disc (take a look at the Volagi ad to the right). The CX bike is becoming its own specific category of bike, not just a mash-up of two others.
3. So you’d have to buy more wheels, just like you already have before.
4. That’s the type of thing you work out BEFORE showing up to a race. Discs and calipers can be shimmed, its not rocket science
5. So what does your team do if someone is riding 9, 10, or 11 speed? What if one rim is wider than the one its replacing? In time more people will have discs and that option will available.
6. So basically you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Looks are obviously way more important than function. Every rider–racer or otherwise–knows that, right?

Right on the spot ‘go Gadget go’ and ‘Colin’!