I forgot to add that the bike has one of the prettiest forks I've seen -- perfect bend and taper.
How long are the chainstays? What does this do to the handling? you mention the stability, and I seem to recall Mark taking an earlier long-stayed prototype on the Mt. Diablo dirt climb and finding the bike did very well, but what about the signature Rivendell "turn in"? I'd be interested to learn how the bike handles, that is to say: what are its handling qualities, and how the design factors contribute to them. (I realize that this may require a collaborative sort of response from the list.) Interesting: used to be that 42.5 cm chainstays were long; that was the length of the original All Rounder's stays and of my first custom's, and IIRC, those of the '92 XO-1 and of Riv's early roads. Now I take 44- 45 as normal -- all the recent bikes I've owned have had stays of this length: the '99 and the '03, the Fargo, the Monocog 29er, and the old Herse. (Well, the Ken Rogers had very short chainstays -- the rear wheel almost or perhaps actually overlapped the seat tube -- but that was a trike.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
