I have a 60cm double-TT Sam and a 58cm AHH. At the moment, they're both setup fairly similarly: 9-speed Shimano mountain drivetrain, bar-end shifters, 46cm Nitto Noodle handlebars, Compass tires (38mm Barlow Pass for Sam, 42mm Babyshow Pass for Homer) and Nitto Tallux stems (80mm for Sam, 100mm for Homer, I think). I have more miles on Sam than Homer, and Sam's miles are much more diverse, including daily semi-urban commuting, loaded touring and trail/offroad rides. Homer's commuted a few times, been on a few day-long rides and one dirt trail (C&O canal) s24o.
As setup, I think Sam has a bit more reach than Homer, and generally, I think I tend to setup my bars with more reach than most folks my height do, thanks to some ape-length arms. Homer generally feels a bit more spritely and nimble. Sam wants to track straight and true. Both are tremendously comfortable rides. Both came to me used with a fair amount of beausage, so I wouldn't hesitate to put them through their paces in any type of riding situation, but I don't expect I'd steer toward using Homer for fully loaded touring duties, though I'll run a few handling and packing experiments through winter and spring to see how and how much luggage he prefers to carry. Sam's a taller bike - I have very little wiggle room straddling the top tube, and less stem sticking up above the headset - standover doesn't impact the ride, but stem height might a bit in terms of flexibility. -Jeff Silver Spring, MD On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Lungimsam <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone had a Homer plus one of the others (or all three) and ridden them > with similar builds? > > How did the rides compare? > > Just curious if I could tell the diff myself between them if I was > blindfolded. > > I have a blue Sam and a Bleriot, but never ridden a Homer. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
