I have a 60 Cheviot and a 61 Roadini. I live in a walkup in NYC and have a Volvo station wagon with a roof rack.
Because bringing it inside and up the stairs is impossible to do pleasantly because of the size, I keep the Cheviot outside on a sign post. It's not ideal, and I've had to strip the paint off areas to make it uglier, painted the fenders brown, etc., so that it doesn't get stolen. Extreme forced beausage. For me, it's worth it, because it is SO comfortable, and I commute on it daily. I put it on my roof rack no trouble (I take off the front wheel), but it's very hard to fit inside the car with the seats down...mostly due to the Bosco's. I think the hardest parts of living with the bike in the city is how I've set it up, with a big basket and big boscos...those things make it harder to lock up; the length doesn't matter besides bringing it inside. My friend has a 52 or 56 and it's incredibly convenient compared to my 60. The Roadini is also big, but it's always lived inside, it's just a normal big bike, because it's 61cm. I've taken it on trains and ferrys and in the car, all good. I would love it if the Cheviot wasn't so long in theory, but if it was shorter it wouldn't be the same bike, and I've never ridden such a comfortable bike. If I had the $ and a garage I'd get the even longer Gus. On Monday, January 6, 2020 at 8:03:57 PM UTC-5, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > You’ve got eagle eyes, Tom! Yes, that is an older photo of the bike - note > the brown saddle and lack of fabulous wavy fenders. > > I have a 50 on there presently. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jan 6, 2020, at 4:57 PM, tom coppedge <tdc...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Leah, I thought you got a shorter reach stem than what your picture shows. > Have you tried a 50mm reach stem yet? Obviously that’d address only > cockpit issues, but an important one. > > Tom > > >> <image0.jpeg> >> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/5oPT7SuztEQ/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAPo8BRmXpWSy6CXJWT8xVs2L_uj79i5y3Gbw4pf%3DumVBbay69A%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAPo8BRmXpWSy6CXJWT8xVs2L_uj79i5y3Gbw4pf%3DumVBbay69A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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/10eed566-81e5-4efc-8d49-4e0f5cc015fd%40googlegroups.com.
