I've been pleasantly surprised with its liveliness. I expected it to ride like a tank but when I climb out of the saddle I don't feel like I'm losing momentum, slowing down or fighting with the bike. I think it would benefit from nicer tires, I'm running the stock kendas. It's not the quickest accelerator from a dead stop but if you are already trucking along and need to accelerate, to beat a traffic light for example, it gets up and goes.
My points of reference are carbon and steel road bikes and also a surly LHT. Compared to the surly I enjoy the Clem's ride a lot more. I think the surly was a little quicker To get up to speed but I always found that when climbing out of the saddle on the surly it fell stiff and the opposite of lively. I don't get that on the Clem. Not sure if it's tubing related or geometry? Tim Vancouver, BC -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
