I would bet any amount you wish that Riv will not make a suspension corrected frame. Plenty of riders can ride as fast as they like on any terrain without suspension--look at Jones's bikes.
My guess is that a Riv mountain bike would end up somewhere in the Jones neighborhood: plus tire clearance, no suspension, longer rear center, shorter front center, but probably a more horizontal top tube, maybe a lug or two, and a crowned fork instead of a truss. Then everyone can start holding their breath for a Nitto lugged dropper post. Eric On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 2:10 PM, tc <tdc...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would wish for a suspension-corrected frame/fork design to enable the > bike appeal to a much broader set of wallets. Not all of us have packed > paths to ride on. Many of us have singletrack options that require some > squish to be able to run at a decent speed that makes it fun and worthwhile > and not rattling your teeth and bones. While I sometimes enjoy the > challenge of poking along a course like a 'trials' event, those times are > few and far between. Our options here are rooty, rocky, and often > rut-filled. With an inexpensive (even coil vs. air) shock up front, the > ride instantly becomes not only tolerable, but really fun. Surly and > others seem to have realized this flexibility opens bikes up to a much > larger ridership (e.g., Karate Monkey, Ogre, etc) by offering frame designs > that allowed either rigid or squishy forks. The thought of having a > suspension-corrected Riv frame, which would of course be the best designed > of all sus-corrected geo's ever, is really, really exciting. Not holding > my breath though. > > Tom > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
