BikeRadar.com have a feature on the Alex Moulton Double Pylon / New Series and it's highlighted on the front page today.
The review is glowing with no negative points and the reviewer states that "if I had the funds I would order one right now".
Wouldn't we all!
One small detail of the new Alex Moulton AM Esprit has thus far escaped my attention.
The trend in Moulton frame design in recent years has seemed to be move to a straight bottom tube, instead of the older style "knuckle shaped" bottom tube, as seen on the old AM and many other models. In recent years, the non-separable versions of the APB (fx8), New Series (pylon, speed) and the new Pashley Moulton TSR have had this straight bottom tube. More recently, separable Moultons (including the New Series Double Pylon and the Pashley Moulton TSR) have also had a straight bottom tube.
I expected that the new Moulton AM Esprit would also have this feature in the separable version, but as the photo below (from Dynavector) shows, the separable version looks very like the old AM.
Contrast this with the more elegant design of the non-separable frame shown below (again from Dynavector)
Some pictures from the Moulton Summit 2007
Every year, Japanese Moulton owners take their lovingly restored and upgraded Moultons on a trip through that beautiful country. Alex Moulton Bicycles takes the event quite seriously too, with Shaun Moulton making the trip most years. I haven't found any reports on the event this year so I don't know if there was any product news or gossip!
This picture of another AM Speed S caught my eye...
... and again...
Not sure I'd buy the double pylon in this colour
This is really a place for me to confess my addiction to bicycles, and
in particular bicycles designed by Alex Moulton
I'll be using this blog to log anything related to Moultons that I
think is interesting, articles, news, bargains and ripoffs on eBay, as
well as logging my own Moulton experiences.
