Hey. I'd go Hillborne. Presuming the 10% non-road riding you describe is *not* actual single-track, intentional-impediment, ascend/descend barely-a-trail mountain-brand mountain biking, then the Hillborne is well suited for your described riding.
If the 10% *is* that sort of riding, go Hunqa or Bomba, no matter how smooth the rest of the riding is. I'm a happy 245lb owner of a 60cm double-top-tube Hillborne. I have no qualms about loading it with 15-45 extra lbs. I ride 700Cx38 tires @60psi and it is light and *smooth* on gravelly rutty trails as well as decent roads. I ride both, about 50/50. get SKS 700c 50mm fenders and some decent flaps and you can regularly go pretty much anywhere anywhen short of aforementioned mountain biking. Needless to say, I don't expect to be 245lbd for long! Yours, Thomas Lunn Skean On Aug 6, 10:54 pm, ewb <ebons...@optonline.net> wrote: > I am trying to decide whether to purchase a Sam Hillborne or > Hunqapillar. > > I currently do 90% of my riding on the road without any load. However > one of the attractions of both bikes is that I can also ride them off- > road the other 10% of the time. I like the exta stoutness of the > Hunqapillar because I weigh 200+ and I it would give me more loaded > capacity if I ever need it. One concern that I have is whether the > extra stoutness of the Hunqapillar will make it more sluggish (less > zippy) than the Hillborne. Does anyone here have riding experience > on both bikes? If so could you please share your opinion about how > their ride quality compares? Please also let me know if you have any > other advice about the pros/cons of these two bicycles. > > Thanks and Regards, > Ernie -- 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.
