My Sam is my favorite bike and my only bike presently. And I have owned and thuroughly ridden multiple frames made of light weight steel, aluminum and carbon fiber. But I am not everybody. It's got a lot to do with where I am presently in life and what I am doing on the bike. If you think about weight, if its something that you care about, then it might not be the right bike. I never think oh all this weight is a drag its slowing me down. But I do often realize as I am riding along how easy it is to sustain a steady pace. I liken it to stoking a fire. It just rolls along so nicely. And that's one of the benefits of weight that you don't hear too often. Yes, benefits of weight. It's something that you need to embrace before you will be truly happy on one of these bikes. There are certainly many many more riders out there taking the opposite view. I suffered with lower back pain, sore hands, wrists and neck. My endurance was nothing compared to what it is now. And I was afraid to ride on all of the terrain where I most wanted to ride: gravel, fire roads, fast dirt paths and rough stuff in general. I was afraid I would get a flat, trash my wheels, trash myself. That's all behind me now. Riv isn't the only company that makes bikes that can do these things. But I think it's the company that makes bikes that can handle more tasks well than any other. They don't do anything excessively well, they just do everything great!
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