Gunnar - Modern Classic?
06-23-20, 10:55 PM
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OP, I am glad you found that "silver bullet" of a bike. That is one of the best things when it happens, and it happened to me after a number of different wheel/tire/component setups on my Davidson Impulse. And yes @upthywazzoo I am yet another contributer to this thread that is above 6'2"! 
Modern classic will be hard to define for a while, I think. It will be C&V at some point, simply due to age and even perhaps aesthetic/architecture. Like many say, Gunnar's are very nice frames and yours is very well proportioned for a tall frame--this is something that seems very difficult to do by companies large and small...outside of Cannondale, of course. God bless them. I had a 62cm Trek Emonda ALR frameset (that I built up) and I thought that was well-proportioned.
Anyway, I like the black and many-shades-of-grey composition. Welded tubes may not have the visual pageantry of lugs, but I wouldn't want lugs on a bike with those angles and geometry. Leave that part of the past with its other friends, Horizontal Top Tube and Mostly-Horizontal Top Tube, IMO. Your Gunnar stands on its own just fine, and I like the component mix and setup.
Modern classic will be hard to define for a while, I think. It will be C&V at some point, simply due to age and even perhaps aesthetic/architecture. Like many say, Gunnar's are very nice frames and yours is very well proportioned for a tall frame--this is something that seems very difficult to do by companies large and small...outside of Cannondale, of course. God bless them. I had a 62cm Trek Emonda ALR frameset (that I built up) and I thought that was well-proportioned.
Anyway, I like the black and many-shades-of-grey composition. Welded tubes may not have the visual pageantry of lugs, but I wouldn't want lugs on a bike with those angles and geometry. Leave that part of the past with its other friends, Horizontal Top Tube and Mostly-Horizontal Top Tube, IMO. Your Gunnar stands on its own just fine, and I like the component mix and setup.
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06-24-20, 09:16 AM
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Modern Classic.
I have been waiting for a thread like this to pop up so I could post my '19Sport. I bought it last year by ordering from Shirk's bike shop in Lancaster County, but was able talk to Richard Schwinn about it.
Yes, I am in the 6'2" plus group. Probably the main reason I went with Gunnar is because they have made so many. Their stock geometry goes up to 68cm.
I have been waiting for a thread like this to pop up so I could post my '19Sport. I bought it last year by ordering from Shirk's bike shop in Lancaster County, but was able talk to Richard Schwinn about it.
Yes, I am in the 6'2" plus group. Probably the main reason I went with Gunnar is because they have made so many. Their stock geometry goes up to 68cm.
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Modern and excellent
Not classic. They are not exclusionary. I had the privilege to do a group ride yesterday, and was fullt expecting my Wraith to be the only steel bike there, old, new, or otherwise. A beautiful emerald Gunnar showed up with very similar lines. We more than held our own with the rest of the crowd, and enjoyed the ride. I have to admit the Gunnar was prettier than the battleship grey Wraith; the two bikes couldn't present a more different attitude, but the rides were not lacking in any way.
