Hi Patrick, I have a house full of cargo bikes including a Civia Loring, Yuba Mundo, and Surly Long Haul Trucker; the Hillborne is much livelier than any of those tanks.. ;-)
Seriously, when I say "lively" I'm thinking more in terms of frame compliance than weight. The LHT is a good bike to use for comparison because it's very popular and similar in configuration to the Hillborne; the Surly is much stiffer and, to me, has a "dead" feeling in comparison. In this sense, the Hillborne is indeed lively (at least in the 60cm size). I'm surprised at your comment regarding the steering - I find it perfectly spot on. Were you, by chance, running a heavy load in the rear? Enjoy your new bike - I hope it ends up working out for you. Regards, Alan On Jun 28, 9:41 am, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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-... > > > 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%2Bunsubscrib > > e...@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.
