On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Ken Yokanovich < reflector.collec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, I rode my 59cm custom road. It has 700x28mm Pasela TG > tires. This is my "fastest" bike and one of the least versatile bikes > that I own. After periods of not riding it, it's one that I would > consider selling... Until I ride it. It seems to beg to go around > corners, feels like an extension of me. It loves to go fast and > floats around corners. It IS the sport bike compared to the All- > Rounder and certainly WAY more-so compared to the Atlantis. > > Each of the bicycles are different. My position is VERY similar on > them all, but it takes a couple of miles from the house and a few > corners to re-familiarize with how they ride.
It's funny, but my two Rivendell Roads handle excellently both with and without heavy rear loads -- actually, I should include a distinguo here and add that I can carry loads only on the '03 Curt because the '99 Joe doesn't take a rack; but both bikes are almost identical apart from braze ons. Unladen, both have seamless straight line tracking, but lean into a turn and they obediently follow your mind without fail, hesitation, or over-eagerness; I take *those* qualities to be the hallmark of a Grant Designed road bike. Yet adding 30 lb to the rear of the '03, on a stiff rack, of course, the handling doesn't suffer: of course you can't throw it around as if unladen, but it does not lose much of its composure, either on the straight or in the curve. The Motobecane, which is my principal load carrying bike -- it's a '73 racing bike, Grand Record, with light and flexy 531 frame -- doesn't handle loads with such aplomb, nor does it handle as well unburdened. Still, it rides quite pleasantly well both with and without load -- this is the bike that I have more than once carried 45 lb on, in the rear. My point in all this blather is that I've found that a good road bike will handle well both empty and full, so to speak; rear loads; I can't speak about front loads, never having ridden a bike that handles them well. -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM Professional Resumes. Contact resumespecialt...@gmail.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
