Interesting writeup, Alan, particulary about how you find the bike lively. I think that my greatest disappointment has been, after the floppiness and "light" feeling of the front end, a sort of sluggishness when accelerating compared to my other bikes, even the heavy and relatively cheaply built Motobecane Grand Record. When I stand on the pedals on the SH, it feels reluctant to "surge".
Now the SH is pretty heavy with rack and fenders in rear and dynohub in front, but it's not heavier than the Motobecane, I don't think. Now, to place my criticisms in perspective, I don't find the SH handles annoyingly badly; it just doesn't shine like the bikes that remain in my possession after filtering dozens through my garage over the last 20 years. Perhaps riding position has a lot to do with it, since I also take a 58 usually, but chose a 56 with saddle pretty far back and Noodles on a 9 cm Technomic just a wee bit higher than plane of top of saddle (rump to nose). Anyway, it will be fine for the sort of touring I plan to do, firmish dirt with pavement. And I'll spend this week riding it to make sure I explore its possibilities fully -- I've put only 180 miles or so on it since buying it in March. PAM On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:05 AM, EcoVelo <ecoveloi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I posted a review (of sorts) and a set of photos of the Sam Hillborne > here: > > > http://www.ecovelo.info/2010/06/27/long-term-road-test-rivendell-sam-hillborne/ > > Enjoy, > a...@ecovelo > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
