I'm with Joel on the competitive riding. Sometimes I feel like I should care, but I just don't. I kind of wish I'd been the one to call Alberto Contador "that tri guy."
I have three bikes, and would be happy with just the Quickbeam. If it was my only bike, I wouldn't switch out the cockpit, since it's perfectly dialed, but I'd change the tires and remove the fenders sometimes. I'd also figure out an easy way to remove the dynamo lighting. When I bought it, I really wanted the ability to run fatter tires, but 40mm is plenty for what I ever do. I've ridden the QB on everything I ride my mountain bike on. With 28mm tires, the bike feels fast, and light 25s, more so. I don't see ever running 25s again, though. I would probably end up with a few wheels. Philip On Sep 1, 8:20 am, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > define can't. With a Bombadil and maybe 4 sets of tires and maybe 3 > > handlebar/cockpit setups, I'd argue that there is no ride under the > > big umbrella of "it all' that this theoretical one bike "can't do". > > In order to say that it can't, I think you'd have to bring in > > qualitative stuff like my Bombadil with road tires and drop bars can't > > be 23 lbs. Or that a moderate fitness level person can't keep up with > > similarly fit riders on MRCBs. Or that nobody could win the Tuesday > > night Crit on it. > > Not so much the competition stuff - I could care less about organized > amateur (or pro for that matter) riding. But rather the certain > magical ride quality a bike made with thin wall tubing, be it 531, > Columbia SL or the modern equivalents the Bomb could never match. > > If the Bomb owner does not care about this admittedly subjective > pleasure, than maybe the Bomb is the only bike needed. > > For me if I were to have only one bike it would probably be a Hilsen. > Maybe 650b so I could use real fat tires for off/rough road. > > On Sep 1, 9:43 am, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > OK, I'll play: > > > "one bike can't do it all - I've tried. " > > > define can't. With a Bombadil and maybe 4 sets of tires and maybe 3 > > handlebar/cockpit setups, I'd argue that there is no ride under the > > big umbrella of "it all' that this theoretical one bike "can't do". > > In order to say that it can't, I think you'd have to bring in > > qualitative stuff like my Bombadil with road tires and drop bars can't > > be 23 lbs. Or that a moderate fitness level person can't keep up with > > similarly fit riders on MRCBs. Or that nobody could win the Tuesday > > night Crit on it. > > > Don't get me wrong, I'm the last person in the world that would try to > > get by with one bike, but if I did want to live in a studio apartment > > and have only one bike, I bet I could have something that could cover > > everything I wanted to do on a bike, and that there would be nothing > > that I wanted to do on a bike that could not be done on that one > > bike. > > > On Aug 31, 6:26 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Define "enough". > > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Pondero <cj.spin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ...but can one bike do enough? > > > > > -- > > > > 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 > > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > Patrick Moore > > > Albuquerque, NM > > > For professional resumes, contact > > > Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- 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.
