Quote from jrob_bent on May 24th, 2016, 9:45pm:Jay, have you or any of the other Musashi owners had problems with front wheel blow outs? I got an email from someone from another forum, and he told me that is why they quit making the Musashi. I think it sounds outlandish. The same person said only the Cruzbike Vendetta had more blow outs. Sounds to me it is a tire problem, I hope.
Ridiculous. 17,500 miles on my Musashi and no blowouts, because I try to stay away from sidewall damaging objects and I don't ride with tires showing casing threads. I stocked up on 451 Schwalbe Stelvios, after they went out of production. The next 451's I'll order for the Musashi will be Panaracer Minits Lite PT folding bead tires. I'm running one on the front of my Performer low racer and really like it.
The official reason for the Musashi going out of production was that it didn't fit Catrike's production scheme of 30 minutes per workstation, and there was no component commonality between it and their trikes. It probably didn't help that over 150 frames had to be replaced, due to the potential for frame cracks.