I know David personally, and he's one of the nicer fellas you'll ever meet. Let me repeat, David = Awesome dude.
Now on to the part where I question his ideas around trail: With regards to his ideas around trail and what he's blogged about lately, I feel that there's a fundamental flaw in everything he talks about with the Atlantis in a randonneuring context. It isn't designed for front loading. You can't call something flawed when it wasn't intended for a very specific purpose, and that's what you're measuring it against. If you go back through his archives, DR's arguments and ideas seem to contradict themselves quite a lot. He was focused on low trail and the Atlantis for a good while, then had a custom Rex bike built specifically for randonneuring. Turns out, that bike is high trail as well - but for whatever reasons it apparently allows David to ride no hands with a big front load. I'm just not following the logic, or the arguments (or the design decisions) anymore. Perhaps David will see this and clarify why the rando-specific Rex bike was designed around a high trail figure, and why he thinks it handles so differently. I humbly have no idea. Also, isn't part of the proper low trail recipe a steeper head tube angle (and narrower bars) as well? Gotta help prevent that wheel flop in order for low trail to really do its thing, right? So it would seem that re-raking a fork on a slack HT frame like the Atlantis (or Saluki) isn't addressing the entire equation. Perhaps I just don't know. Anyway... I ride the Saluki (not as stout as the Atlantis) with a randonneuring setup quite often, and can change clothes all day long with a front load. Maybe something was wrong with David's frame. And yes, with a very heavy touring-sized load, the Saluki gets noodly (as I've previously reported here). Gino On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting article by someone who replaced the fork on their Atlantis > to eliminate the "shimmies". > > http://readytoride.biz/?p=333 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
