Modern bikes are fine - I recommended the OP consider one as a companion to his Sam - but being on a Rivendell group and calling us "people who've drunk the Kool-Aid" is... interesting 😐
On Sunday, July 23, 2023 at 8:48:27 PM UTC-7 Nick Payne wrote: > I obviously haven't drunk the Kool-Aid:-) > On Monday, 24 July 2023 at 10:26:52 am UTC+10 pi...@gmail.com wrote: > >> High BB, short chainstays, steep seat-tube angles, and disc brakes? >> That's as far away from the Roadini as you can get. Add in wireless >> shifting and I'm sorry, that's just not comparable to any Rivendell I've >> seen! >> >> On Sunday, July 23, 2023 at 2:00:11 PM UTC-7 Nick Payne wrote: >> >>> I've come to like modern aluminium frames - they're a far cry from the >>> rigid Cannondales of 25 years ago. I've been riding bikes for about half a >>> century, and have multiple lugged frames spanning that period (including a >>> custom Riv and a Bleriot), but I reckon that the Mason Definition frameset >>> that I recently built up as a fairly lightweight zippy machine is the best >>> riding bike I've ever owned. It can fit 35mm tyres - Conti GP Urban are >>> what I'm using, and has rack and mudguard mounts on the frame if you want >>> to fit those. >>> [image: PXL_20230712_031843355.jpg] >>> >>> Nick Payne >>> >> -- 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/e268f85d-0cfe-497a-82ed-de64b62883ebn%40googlegroups.com.
