All City Nature Boy Ace Review

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All city nature boy ace review.

Do eccentric bottom brackets suck. Making their return to the ac lineup the nature boy and macho king are back and better than ever mostly due to a new frame with a c e. Considering all city nature boy ace. Introduced on prior all city models their a c e.

This was pre macho king pre spacehorse and way before the electric queen. Race geometery for a light really quick feel. All city has a reputation for sizing their bikes running big and i definitely found this to be the case. The all city nature boy has long been one of my favorite bikes.

The chain tension is now adjusted with an eccentric bb versus a horizontal track end. Both models come with new splatter paint jobs with the nature boy s mimicking the all city fulton racing colors. That nature boy is an expression of this and is a singlespeed cross bike. All city nature boy a c e.

Both bikes are due to hit dealers in october just in time for cross season. The new nature boy looks right up my alley but i have one major concern. Compared to my cannondale caad 10 road bike the all city nature boy is half a cm shorter up front half a cm longer out back very similar or even identical angles all around same seat tube length same stand over same bb height. The nature boy has a new dropout design too.

Model with a few updates. All city nature boy review. Some say it s impossible to set up and that it will creak. Since it was introduced it has been touted as a do anything kind of bike.

It has an eccentric bottom bracket as a chain tensioning device. The nature boy first launched in 2010 as a singlespeed cross machine. Back then in 2010 all city was primarily in the game of making urban bikes. Tubing acronym stands for air hardened custom designed and extruded steel tubes that are proprietary to all city.

This year marked a big change for the nature boy launching the a c e. 4 5 out of 5 star rating 4 5 gbp 799 99 rrp. Nature boy all city is deep into the cyclocross culture and counter culture both. The nature boy s ebb is a pf30 shell with an ebb mounted within.