I would just like to chime in and say that one perhaps under-appreciated feature of a Jones is the truss fork. After never being to get rid of brake stutter with the Paul V-brakes on my Sam, I was really stoked to have exceptionally powerful brakes and absolutely no stutter. The truss fork seems exceptionally strong but also forgiving, with it's high degree of rake seeming to result in crisp handling and a more vertically compliant ride. I think the front thru-axle hub (135mm axle) is a great feature and I know they're supposed to improve handling, seems like a major plus for hard off-road riding.
About a year ago I thought I would never get a disc-equipped bike just because it did seem like incorporating disks on an all-road bike would make the builder us an "overkill" fork that killed the ride quality. While the truss fork could appear bulky, I think it also is elegant in its own way and a key part of the way a Jones bike rides. It also adds character sort of like what the double top tube was on my Sam! This bike is really stable and just wants to be ridden hard. . . but I thin I've evangelized for it enough. -- 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.
