Johnny I've let you down. I saw it and could have ridden it, but got distracted and then forgot.
I was out at Riv on Saturday, and the reverse stem Clem was the first thing I noticed. I was going to grab it and ride it around, but then Grant said "Hey Bill, perfect timing, grab a bike, I've only got an hour". Grant took me up the short steep climbs he's been featuring in the Blagh lately. It was a little longer than an hour. I rode the size Large GBW prototype. Those steep pitches were super challenging. They are that narrow range of steepness and rockiness where they are much easier to handle if you have some speed. A super low gear has you moving slower so the bike handling part ends up getting you. You go faster in a higher gear and the handling gets easier but you need the power and fitness all while maintaining traction. I took them too slowly and the handling part would cause me to stop. Grant says there have only been one or two riders who could clean these sections on their first try. He was super interested to know how many of my racers could do it (El Cerrito High School). I guessed maybe four of them, maybe five. Anyway, when I returned to Riv HQ I forgot about trying out Rev-Stem-Clem. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 6:01:57 AM UTC-7, Johnny Alien wrote: > > Since (like the Clem) the bike was completely designed around upright bars > I would imagine that going to drops might need something drastic like the > zero stem or reverse stem BUT that doesn't mean it can't be done. For some > people the dirt drop might be enough to be comfortable on it. I am eager > to see what people do and how it works out. It's certainly worth a shot. I > am really shocked that mounting the stem backwards did not make the > handling feel weird. He claims everyone said it felt normal. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5f224840-5447-4da3-8911-4e87f3c4b025%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
