We on this list think that steel bikes are great, that the bike industry in general places too much emphasis on racing, that wool shirts are a good riding alternative to synthetic bike jerseys, that bikes should fit wide tires.
Sooooo... when a bike company makes steel bikes that fit wide tires, and sells wool riding clothing.... shouldn't we be happy? Isn't that what we want to happen? I love Surly. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't put a 2" tire on my Atlantis. The widest I've put is 1.7". > > But so far I LOVE the Knards. They stick to anything. (Supposedly they > are subpar in mud. We're in a drought, so I can't speak to that.) They > have way better traction than anything else I've ridden. > > I took a beginner's mountain biking class. One thing they talked about > was riding over obstacles like logs and curbs. Preload the suspension > (yeah that's useful on a bike with no suspension), pull up on the > handlebars just as you approach the obstacle, blah blah blah. With the > Knards, when I see a 5" curb or log, I just ride at it, and the bike > goes over it. No technique required. Just ride. > > I was trying to climb a steep section of a fire road. Out of habit, I > avoided the gravel section on the left, figuring I'd have bad > traction, and instead failed on the rough, rocky right side because I > didn't have enough power to get over the roughest parts. After several > tries, I realized that the Knards give way better traction than the > smooth tires I had previously used on this fire road, so I rode up the > gravel. I might as well have been riding smooth pavement for all the > traction trouble I had: none. The Knards didn't slip a millimeter. No > problem, up I went. > > Deep gravel, deep sand, ruts: I don't have to pick a line. I can just > ride the bike. > > I must admit that the Krampus is not a fast bike on the road. That's > the disadvantage. > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Anne: did you ever write up a review of the Knard? Whether so or no, I'd be >> interested to learn how it handles and how it rides over soft and rough >> ground, compared to the Atlantis or any other ~2" tired bike you've ridden. >> >> Actually, I'm most interested in learning how 3" tires differ on soft and on >> rough surfaces compared to 2" tires. >> >> Thanks. >> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I am not remotely disappointed in Surly. Their wool stuff looks great. >>> And they have jerseys designed for women! >>> >>> Ibex sold striped wool shirts before Rivendell. Doesn't mean that >>> Rivendell is a bad yucky copycat; just means that people like wool >>> shirts with stripes. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Bruce Smitham <wineh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > OK, I'll admit that I own a Surly Pacer and have owned a LHT to get me >>> > down the coast of California in the summer when my a Soma San Marcos build >>> > didn't work out. I am disappointed in Surly these days. The Racing Sucks >>> > is >>> > so close to "Un-Racer" and now they are making wool stripped shirts that >>> > totally resemble the ones Riv is making. I just read it in their blog >>> > here: >>> > http://surlybikes.com/blog/post/the_goods_that_are_soft >>> > >>> > Bruce "just a little disappointed in Surly" Smitham in San Diego >>> > >>> > -- >>> > 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- Anne Paulson >>> >>> It isn't a contest. 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No place. >> "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look >> at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. >> You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into >> somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your >> daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is >> all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was >> any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, >> because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where >> in your time and your body can they be? >> "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show >> me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had >> redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can >> find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -- Anne Paulson > > It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. -- -- Anne Paulson It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. -- 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. 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