I had/have (still packing it for sale) a 51cm Joe. I got the Small GBW prototype and adjusted it into "commuter mode" recently. Key build differences with the Joe vs GBW: 55cm Albas with a 9cm Nitto Technomic stem vs 710mm Jones Loop with a 30mm Spank stem; 2.0" Marathon Supremes on VO Diagonales vs 2.35" G-One Speeds on Velocity Cliffhangers; and Sugino XD600 cranks vs Silver cranks. Everything else is roughly the same, and I ride the same urban, all pavement route with the same load to work.
The one sentence summary on the GBW: there's no mistaking it's a mountain bike. It may have a rack and notionally street tires, but the ride rhymes with all the mountain bikes I've owned. I read all of that Mongolian riding stuff that Grant wrote about and thought, yeah, sure, Grant, whatever, you're the crazy man riding into chest deep pools of water in your Ethiopian shoes, but after riding the GBW I kinda get what he's saying. I also like the swoopy top tube since I can mount the bike without having to swing my leg over the seat and standover is one less thing to worry about when the terrain gets uneven or when tackling a challenging part of a trail. For me, I picked the GBW over the Joe because I wanted a mountain bike that I could commute with during the week, and I like the ride of fat tires. The GBW will likely outshine the Joe on single track while lightly loaded, while the Joe would outperform the GBW when hauling a load or pounding out miles on maintained gravel roads. --Ed C. On Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 11:31:38 AM UTC-7, Jonathan D. wrote: > > Thoughts on how the Gus’ ride will compare to the Joe and Atlantis? I > don’t have a sense of the geometry differences beyond the fat whee options. -- 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.
