Good review, Zed. I've been meaning to post a 6-month review myself, now I might not need to! I bought a stock complete Clementine, so there is some difference. I have been saying Give Bosco a Chance at every opportunity. I committed to 100 days, and it makes a difference. Mine are bullmoose, too, so only adjustable in one direction. They are super.
As you point out, the Clems were designed for these bars. Not that they won't operate well with some others, but the designer envisioned these with Boscos. Can't remember whether it was the wonderful Clem brochure, but somewhere Grant wrote, about the Bosco bulls being a bit locked in, "trust us." Trying to isolate things like chainstay length, tubing specs, etc. in isolation kind of misses the point in my opinion, and I think your review conveys this holistic idea when talking about Rivendells in general and the Clems in particular. I still have the stock tires. I was planning to go with an upgrade to Switchbacks (and trying to trade some Hetres right now) but honestly, the stock tires do the job. I hear you on the weight. Not noticeable on the road at all. But heading up my three-story walk-up with my Back o Bike bags full of dinner...whoah! Way much heavier than my similarly equipped/loaded Le Tour mixte. Thanks for taking the time to write up your thoughts. Very enjoyable. On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 10:36:55 PM UTC-4, Zed Martinez wrote: > > After switching from my original albastache build to boscos a while back > and getting some more mileage and longer rides under me, I keep meaning to > do a proper medium-term write-up on the Clem and just kept being too busy > to do it. I finally had a quiet evening to sit down and apparently I had a > lot more to say about my past 7 months with the Clem than I expected, so, > I'll spare everyone the wall of text, but if you're 4,000 words curious > about Riv's economy bruiser, boy do I have a blog post for you. > > The short version is: I probably could have just titled this 'How I Got > Over My Own Hubris and Learned to Love the Bosco' > > http://zedmartinez.com/2016/06/rivendell-clem-smith-jr/ > -- 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.
