Great news. A pure road bike would be perfect. >From the Riv Road and Long Low thinking comes the Ram/Rom/Redwood, which, like Jim wrote, detours through 650B country bike riding, and vectors toward the Hilsen, Hillborne --- Atlantis. Now back to a lugged steel "road" bike for club riding and all business hard efforts. Kind of makes me want to take the Jack Browns off my Romulus and put the 28s Paselas back on.
Or, perhaps like Dustin, I'm watching too much of Le Tour. Esteban San Diego, Calif. On Jul 7, 8:59 am, CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > That's really interesting news. I recall when the Rambouillet came out, it > seemed so dramatic to have the clearances that it did. From there, the > evolution of interest in 650B/584 pushed the development of large volume > 700C/622 tires, which, in turn gave us the Hilsen. (And from the Hilsen, we > now have the Hillborne, et. al.) > > Once the limit stake got driven into the ground with the big clearance frame > with large volume tires, it seems like it let them refine the lineup in the > opposite direction. The idea of a new design, with all that GP has learned > in the ensuing years, will be very exciting to see. > > Anyone who has followed this or the iBob list has heard the lamenting at the > "loss" of the Rambouillet. Based on what folks wished for, it seems like > the .... (new design)... will bring all that and a bag of chips. > > Darned good news! > > - J > > -- > Jim Edgar > cyclofi...@earthlink.net > > Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries -http://www.cyclofiend.com > Current Classics - Cross Bikes > Singlespeed - Working Bikes > > Your Photos are needed! - Send them here -http://www.cyclofiend.com/guidelines > > "I threw one leg over my battle-scarred all-terrain stump-jumper and rode > several miles to work. I'd sprayed it with some cheap gold paint so it > wouldn't look nice. Locked my bike to a radiator, because you never knew, > and went in." > -- Neal Stephenson, "Zodiac" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
