>>980490Erik Nohlin designed both.
AWOL was the first, Sequoia
> The AWOL was designed to be a touring bike, fully loaded or lightly packed, it was more than capable to tackle almost all conditions with its massive clearances and rugged construction. >Nohlin wanted a bike that was faster on its feet than the AWOL, so he designed a one-off made from custom butted, CroMo steel and rode it for over a year, making notes on improvements. > didn’t want to simply take an AWOL frame and add on new parts from a catalog. He wanted to design a new bike from the ground up.>new drop bar, which has 20mm rise, flair and a shallow drop.>a new rim, the Cruzero. A wide, tubeless-ready rim >thru-axle>internal routing 