I'm toying, just toying, with the thought of buying a SH as an allrounder touring bike to complement my stable of (a) road bikes with max cap of 28s with fenders and (b) a full, 65mm-tired 29er. So:
1. How big a load, front + rear, can the SH comfortably handle, assuming you are using top quality racks, like Tubus? 2. How does a front load affect wheel flop? (I recently added a small bar bag to my custom Riv Road and find that even a few lbs increase flop noticeably; of course, this bike has very light and very narrow 559 wheels, which may be more affected by weight over the front wheel.) 3. How much weight do you find you can tolerably carry on front? 4. It does have fork-leg braze-ons for a small front rack, right? What racks fit? And how much weight can they carry? FWIW, I am 170 buck nekkid and am planning a dirt road tour in late spring, and while I love the idea of the Fargo, it is probably too much of a duplicate of my (God willing) in-the-process-of-being-customized-by-local-builder Monocog 29er, for which, were I to choose the Monocog for the tour, I would buy a nice Alfine hub-geared touring wheelset (with disc-braked dynohub front!).. I know that the Atlantis is the cat's pyjamas, but perhaps the SH is more roadish and fits better into the gaps of my present bike stable. All comments welcome if they are intelligent and well articulated. -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com (505) 227-0523 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
