club_card Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 I was just looking on the monty website and saw these they seem to be like the onza mucleman cranks, i dont know anything about the price but they will probably be quite alot (as usual monty bike parts) nothing special really but just thought i would let the forum know :) that is if no one does know about them :) any thoughts or views? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pauly Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 hey i was going to post up something simlar today about these cranks monty cranks because they look alot like the uci tensiles. Cheers Pauly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
club_card Posted March 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 hey i was going to post up something simlar today about these cranks monty cranks because they look alot like the uci tensiles. Cheers Pauly ← they have been out for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 I was just looking on the monty website and saw these they seem to be like the onza mucleman cranks, i dont know anything about the price but they will probably be quite alot (as usual monty bike parts) ← hey i was going to post up something simlar today about these cranks monty cranks because they look alot like the uci tensiles. ← Yep and yep, same cranks (apart from the ISIS fitting one the musclemans), higher price! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotchDave Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Didn't the tensile factory sell 50 pairs of rebadged tensiles to monty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Didn't the tensile factory sell 50 pairs of rebadged tensiles to monty? ← Yeah, might be more now though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotchDave Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 If I was superydoopery cycles I'd have a word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Tensile are owned by SuperCycles, so I'm guessing Mike'll have an idea. Is there a R.R.P. for those Monty-Tensiles yet? Should be interesting to see the end price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 £163.25, including Shimano freewheel and that lovely bashing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotchDave Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Mark, when I asked them bout those cranks they said that the factory had sold them, this implies that tensile is a brand owned by Mike, but for some strange reason they never bought a factory. :lol:" Odd that. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Tensile are owned by SuperCycles← this implies that tensile is a brand owned by Mike← So wheres the problem..? You both said the same thing, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 £163.25, including Shimano freewheel and that lovely bashing. ← Whoa, £20+ Shimano freewheel. That's Monty Value.™ And Div, I don't really get what you mean? I was saying that Mike owns Tensile who has those cranks produced, so I assumed he'd know where they'd potentially be going (in the same way the Levelboss frame is in a public catalogue from Pulo), plus he's probably letting them sell them or something *shrugs* Tired, not thinking right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyroo Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Do monty really think people will buy the cranks for that price over tensiles purely because they say "Monty" on them??? The tensiles look nicer by far anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Do monty really think people will buy the cranks for that price over tensiles purely because they say "Monty" on them??? ← It seems to happen with a lot of other stuff, unforeunately. Levelboss/T-Pro frames, for example... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munki Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 It seems to happen with a lot of other stuff, unforeunately. Levelboss/T-Pro frames, for example... ← What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotchDave Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Sorry maybe I wasn't clear, Mike owns the brand Tensile, tensiles are made in a factory in taiwan, but what I understood was that the factory that made the cranks sold some to monty, not the brand. When I talked to the super cycles guys they told me that they had, had words with the factory about them selling the cranks to monty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megamomac Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 cant say i like the look of those monty 'muscleman' stylee ones. they just look too chunky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukeee Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Sorry maybe I wasn't clear, Mike owns the brand Tensile, tensiles are made in a factory in taiwan, but what I understood was that the factory that made the cranks sold some to monty, not the brand. When I talked to the super cycles guys they told me that they had, had words with the factory about them selling the cranks to monty. ← Super cycles pick them out of a book just as Monty do. What are Super Cycles going to say to the factory? Do it again and i'll smack your botty... They have no control over what product gets sold to who. We pay an elevated price for Monty stuff in this country thanks to M.R.S. The UK bike trade sucks dick. To be honest i've had the Monty/Tensile cranks on my bike for about 8 months. I'd much prefer a set of Middelburns on there but sadly my funds won't allow it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Super cycles pick them out of a book just as Monty do. Not in the case of Tensiles, Luke... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukeee Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Enlighten me , Adam.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Mike sends design over, they make cranks. Minimum order of... a lot... in order for them to use the material specified. They may be in catalogues now, but as far as im aware/have been told, the design was originally from Nottingham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyroo Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Mike sends design over, they make cranks. Minimum order of... a lot... in order for them to use the material specified. They may be in catalogues now, but as far as im aware/have been told, the design was originally from Nottingham. ← As opposed to some Japenese company designing them, the factory making them and supercycles buying them, which is the case for the levelboss is it not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 As opposed to some Japenese company designing them, the factory making them and supercycles buying them, which is the case for the levelboss is it not? ← Erm, well rumour has it that Koxx designed the Levelboss, which was then made available in the Pulo (Chinese frame manufacturer) catalogue for everyone to make improvements on and sell at half the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyroo Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Erm, well rumour has it that Koxx designed the Levelboss, which was then made available in the Pulo (Chinese frame manufacturer) catalogue for everyone to make improvements on and sell at half the price. ← That cant be true, why would Koxx allow other companies to sell their products at prices competitive to their own? The amount of T Pros sold compared to levelbosses is quite different i would imagine. Where Monty would make money wih their tensiles, Koxx would lose money by creating a competitor for themselves, which is, quite frankly, stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted March 7, 2005 Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 Maybe they didn't renew the IP rights on the Levelboss frame or something? :lol: The trade price of the Koxx Levelboss and T-Pro frames are the same though, aren't they? Didn't it transpire it was costing them $60 per frame? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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