Long chain-chain stays allow you to differentiate yourself in a crowded market place. "Better" is always a relative term and for the type of riding I do, commuting, fun rides, the occasional brevet or loosely organized rides with friends, my 2013 AHH does an outstanding job at all of those things.
Would another couple of inches on the chain-stays improve the ride and make it "better"? Maybe but there is nothing "wrong" with it at the moment that needs improving, IMHO. The recent changes in design philosophy at Riv take existing frame design concepts, refined over the last 100 years or so and push them to an extreme for an "improvement". It very well may be an improvement in certain circumstances but it narrows the definition on Just Riding, when the bike becomes an outlier in your daily life. As a comparison, I recently received the Legolas I ordered and it has even shorter chain-stays than the AHH. The mix of light tubing, different geometry and shorter wheel base makes climbing hills much easier. This is all subjective and I don't do pseudo science experiments to prove or dis-prove my experience I just ride and think about how I feel. To me the "country bike" ethos Riv spoke of when the introduced the AHH was something that appealed to me. I could and have re-configure the bike in a number of different ways depending on how I want to ride it and it always performs great. The new AHH, Atlantis, Appaloosa, Clems and Gus Boots all seem like minor variations of the same bike The new designs seem to stress more specific, nuanced differences and therefor seem more limiting in my opinion. YMMV. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/386e8969-d65d-4cd8-8850-8d3008ff3a00%40googlegroups.com.
