Yankeebird, Thank you for not discounting or ignoring your wife’s criticisms of her Homer/650b wheels. Like, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU.
Signed, Leah, who was told on Instagram - and I quote - “That bag [a beautiful new BananaSax in gray grid] needs to go under the saddle and a bar bag of your choice put in its place” after posting a photo of my new Platypus. Sent from my iPad > On Dec 14, 2020, at 10:58 AM, Yankeebird <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you very much Leah, great reply! That's very reassuring. My Cheviot is > the dream bike I have been waiting for my entire adult life. I am glad the > Platypus didn't get too much of a work-over. (now if they would only bring > back that Orange or bronze/green color... I have the Riv blue color but I am > one of the few that doesn't like it. Not bold enough and too sophisticated > for me, but I had no choice at the time). I love your color, just pump it out > loud! > > Patrick: She doesn't like them. All her other bikes are 700 and she jumped on > the 650b and it was one of the first complaint's out of her mouth after our > first long ride, and she is not in any way a tech weenie. She knows nothing > about bikes and has a hard time articulating anything about how she feels or > could feel better in an engineering kind of way. So when she said she didn't > like the feel of the wheels, and that she felt too low to the ground, and so > on, it was a targeted, precise criticism that I'm not going to ignore or > discount. She's had the bike for almost two years now, it's just not working > also in fit, she is stretched out too much, even with lots of different > handlebars and stems. Lots lots. Something just ain't right, we can't nail > it. > > She's always been very weird to fit a bike, I don't know what she has going > on that makes it so difficult. She has a mid-80's Trek 400 that fits her > awesome, it's her favorite bike, but neck and shoulder issues are forcing a > more upright position now and the headset is so short I hesitate to put a > taller stem on it. (we are not meeting min depth as it is). Also, no > fenders/etc. > > I put her on my 60cm Chev and squashed everything down, and even though the > bike was too big for her, she immediately looked better and more importantly, > felt better on it. I think/have thought the Chev in a smaller size is the > ticket for her for rando/commuting. I've been holding off since RBW told me > the next mixte would be 700 across more sizes as opposed the largest... and > here we are. > >> On Monday, December 14, 2020 at 1:41:30 PM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: >> Just a little, tiny interjection into this thread: I'm curious why your wife >> doesn't like 650B and prefers 700C? If she prefers thinner tires -- for >> example -- couldn't you replace the tires with thinner ones instead of >> replacing the whole bike? >> >> Patrick Moore, "running" 24.8" 29 mm tires, 25.6" 41 mm tires, 29.6" 61 mm >> tires, and 30.5" 70 mm tires, in confusing ABQ, NM >> >> >>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 10:32 AM Yankeebird <[email protected]> wrote: >>> .... My wife's Homer isn't working out as hoped (she really really misses >>> 700 wheels and does not like the 650b's) >> >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> > > -- > 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/9V7KQrexQsw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/184909eb-2a49-419a-811f-8257f6a27fcbn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/EAB242C4-866C-497B-830E-B443CB18F76B%40gmail.com.
