My custom Riv was built for all-round road riding with possible light touring. Do-it-all. (Sidebar: this was because I'd always been used to having only one bike so it didn't occur to me to have different- purpose bikes.)
The Riv always seemed very light to me compared to the other steel bikes I'd owned. Still does. I now have an old Univega for a beater, and it sure seems heavier. One day I happened to notice the shop where they service the Riv had a bike scale. It turned out to be 26 lbs unladen. I had it in my mind that it was lighter than that, but so what? It's definitely light by my own comparisons, and no other bike I've owned has been such a joy to ride. On Mar 2, 2:45 pm, Ryan Ray <ryanr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks the responses. Consider me off the ledge but still investigating the > possibility of a more stripped down bike. The pictured bike is my one and > only and as set up serves me well in that regard. City riding, work out > rides, 80+ mile all day fun rides, hauling the kid to school in the > trailer, that tour I keep putting off... > > - Ryan > > > > On Friday, March 2, 2012 11:12:04 AM UTC-8, Cyclofiend Jim wrote: > > > The only question is "how does it ride?" > > > Everything else is just noise. > > > - J > > > -- > > Jim Edgar > > cyclofi...@earthlink.net > > > Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries -http://www.cyclofiend.com > > Current Classics - Cross Bikes > > Singlespeed - Working Bikes > > > "You must be the change you want to see in the world." > > Mahatma Gandhi -- 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-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.
