Yeah, these Roadeos make great road bikes. I have the saddle on mine about even with the stem, which I find comfortable and I can still use the drops on my Mark's bar fine. I'm generally passing people while decending and this bike gives me total confidence while doing so, even when the road twists and turns. I did a rather difficult 62 mile charity ride on this past Saturday that was hilly and ridiculously windy (no tailwinds either because it just turned out that way) and the bike was fine. I was tired afterwards, but never once uncomfortable. This specific route had some truly terrible roads on it, something which I actually brought up with the organizer. One downhill was just destroyed and had that gravelly (sp?) loose chip stuff all over it; apparently this was a failed attempt to fix the various potholes and irregularities. I was glad I had the Roadeo on that one and other riders were complaining up a storm afterwards because of the condition and how they had to slow way down. I didn't slow down because the bike can handle that stuff fine.
On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 10:26:02 PM UTC-5, Don Compton wrote: > After someone had questions about Roadeos on the IBOB group, I thought I > would give and update. > Over the years ( 63 yo) I have had so many bikes. I never raced, just was > an active club rider. A few centuries a year and mostly 35-50 mile rides. > Okay I am an old fart, but the stability of Grant's handling dynamics > makes for a wonderful bike on long rides, especially hilly ones. There's > just something special about cruising down a hill at above 30 and floating > over the marginal bumps and feeling confident missing the potholes from > hell. And to top it off, The frames are works of art. > And then there's the fit. I need my bars high. I run my bars <1cm below my > saddle. It allows me to have a proper tilt on my saddle and less hands > problems on long rides. > Don Compton > -- 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.
