Great build, Ed. Super fun looking!
Ed wrote: As a step thru with skinny tubes, no surprise it's pretty flexy. But isn't flex inherently a bad thing? "Vertically stiff, laterally compliant" as the literature claims. > > What I found with the Bubbe is that the flex is only an issue when I'm > simultaneously being abusive and using poor technique, which is especially > true for me when I stand up to pedal. It's like the bike is telling me, > "You're doing it wrong." But the bike isn't unstable. The best way I can > describe it is that it goes "off" but wants to come "back." The bike > *wants* me to do the right thing, and rewards me with a connectedness and a > resonance when I do. > Wait. Are you saying you got a late model Rivendell to...plane? Stop the presses. > > Given that it's got that character plus it handles those loads, I'm sure > there's some kind of bike design wizardry going on beyond my ability to > comprehend. Whatever it is, it's good, and flex seems to be part of that > plan. > > > > -- 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.
