I had an 83-84 Takara Highlander, which was basically a Stumpjumper clone and it rode nothing like a Riv. The Takara was floppy at slow speeds and became a juggernaut at medium and faster speeds. The front-end either felt like you couldn't hold it steady or it felt like you could barely budge it from straight.
The Hunqapillar front-end is very neutral, not twitchy and not overly stable. In fact, the front end just instinctively goes where I want it too, which I think is a big part of the Riv ride magic. If I see a particular path I want to take or something I want to avoid, just thinking about it seems to make it happen, with no real conscious effort to make the steering corrections. I test rode a 26" LHT and found it to be extremely twitchy and unpleasant. But, it had drop bars, which I'm not used too, and the skinny tires Surly spec'd for it. Put fat tires and a mtb handlebar on the 26" LHT, and I think it would ride similar to a Rivendell. In fact, the front end geometry of the 26" LHT and the original 56 cm Atlantis, yield pretty much the same trail and wheel flop numbers. On Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 9:38:50 AM UTC-6 Sam Perez wrote: > I'm ready to get a riv bike but haven't ridden one yet. Bikes I've owned > and emulated rive bikes with are the following. > > MB-1 26" > MB-0. 26" > Surly LTH. 26" > EBISU All purpose 650b > Salsa ala carte 26" > 84 stump jumper 26" > 80s univega. 26" > > Anyone have experience with same bikes? Do the rivs handle like 80s mt > conversations? after years of riding I'm beginning to get some neck pain > from drop bars. So really an upright sporty rando with day loads up diablo. > Haven't decided what model yet. > > Thanks > Sam > -- 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/357cb135-c350-4d8f-80bf-8d84859a8e93n%40googlegroups.com.
