On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 18:14 -0700, Michael Hechmer wrote: > I too am a big Jan Heine admirer. He is a very bike smart guy, but he > is confused about two things, not evident in the posted blog. First, > riding fast and riding far are two different things. Both can be fun, > but as you combine the two, fewer and fewer people actually enjoy > it.
> Second, bikes and components are not necessarily faster or better > because they were first made in France. Do you honestly think he believes that? You don't think there's any chance at all that it's simply that he likes the sort of things the French made? > I would be happy to put my Ram, with mostly USA made components, up > against any bike costing not more than twice as much on any two to > four hour ride, which is about all that I or most riders actually > enjoy. I'll happily take that challenge, having been the owner of a Ram which I sold because it was too stiff for me, and replaced with a Johnny Coast-built Velo Orange Randonneur (just like the one BQ tested) with all the other components except the headset swapped over. Two hour, four hour, ten hour ride, in every case the VO performs differently in a way that I would characterize as "better". -- 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.
