Mounted the Mark's Rack with upside-down EDelux yesterday. Took advantage this morning of beautiful weather for twenty-some miles of rolling Iowa for Homer's first real ride. I must admit I wore padded shorts. Brooks, my English butler (see what I did there?), is simply not adequately accustomed to my posterior yet.
The bike lives up to the hype. It is ride is smooth, responsive, easy uphill and into the wind. It handles superbly in gravel, even fresh post-flooding dumps of dusty white boulders (thanks Johnson County!). The Marathon Supremes (700C x 40 mm nominal; about 37 mm right now) are characteristically Schwalbe-ish, but at 40-45 psi are cushy enough for the time being. There is plenty of clearance for 40 mm tires, even with fenders, and more without. I remain unsure about Noodles, though. I'm used to narrower bars with a rando bend (the LHT has the VO Chris's Rando Bar) and a longer ramp. Not that the Noodles are uncomfortable, but when I hopped on the LHT later to head into the office, the rando ramps felt downright luxurious in comparison. Time will tell. I'm interested in reading comments from those who might have used Noodles then switched to a rando bar, or vice versa, or have one of each on different bikes. Pictures show that Iowa is not flat. And that we do indeed have cattle (and hogs, too, but I can't post odors): https://www.flickr.com/photos/125863173@N06/sets/72157645186309248/ -- Bob -- 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.
