3 for me - all need to be fast and able to carry a load; and all weather / conditions -
main ride - Boulder 700c, drop bars, Ostrich bag or sometimes basket, SON & edelux, VO rear rack which I thought would be useless, but actually gets used quite a bit for overflow from the front carry; Gipiemme shifters on bar ends. Trashed the full 1990s Campy gruppo over the winter, it fell to pieces; so now all Shimano gearing. A fast, fun, very comfortable ride; and good looking too (white, no decals, honjos, silver racks and components) winter ride (in the snowy muddy Berkshires) - Kog PR, G1, S3X (3 speed fixed hub), convertible rando / giant Porteur rack, Novatech dyno. Used to be set up as 3 x 8, no matter what other bikes I've had during the tenure of the Kog, I keep coming back to it, and not just due to 650b; even though it's a little too stiff for me, there's an incredible sweet spot that it hits. Great trail rider / rough road rider too Peculiar outlier - custom painted bike friday NWT, Soma Mustache bars, sprung b17, racks front and back...the BEST freight hauler I have, loads unnoticeable. 3 x 9; vbrakes 1.5" tire width - fast (except uphill, but that's me needing to spin harder, not lose momentum etc). Shared with wife for travel bike; used by me as the freight hauler when large things are going back and forth. tandems - Bike Friday tandem for me and my little boy who has gone from 30 lbs to 70 lbs in the 4 years we've used it together, and has always been a random input...sometimes massive power (relatively), and sometimes deadweight. We use it for general getting around all over in our rural hilly area, up to 20 mile r/trip. Or into NYC for long days of flat riding (wherein it, and he, shine). With a quick conversion to fit the wife it's a 28mph cruising on the flats for hours Santana from 1999 - the BEST riding tandem we've ever had. For awhile set up with a kid back, and now just kept on tap for the future as we use the BF tandem more. But one day, for long trips, when the little guy is on his own / or on his own road bike leaving us behind (hopefully), this'll be the one we use together wife's bike - Riv Glorious, custom paint, great riding, like the Kog, an ineffable rightness, a real flyer, I wish it fit me! At one time all our bikes were exact duplicates of each other, but now (to me) they are different enough (ie Kog and Boulder and BF) that the variability keeps them from being sold off. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/aB_AMqk8Al0J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
