Me too.  Funny how the desire for skinny tires and low handlebars
seems to spring up this time of year... :)

On Jul 7, 10:58 am, Esteban <proto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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> > "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"
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