I have always liked the the two top tube design. As much for the aesthetics as for any added stiffness.
Since stiffness was mentioned, guess I'm one of those riders who do not find a Rivendell overly stiff. The little bit I've ridden on "normal" tube bikes in the last 30 plus years have not been favorable. One reason I went to riding mountain bikes on the road by the mid 1980's. Even when weighing a lot less than I do now every single one of those bikes felt like the classic "wet noodle" and had a tough time controlling it. Now, I don't own a 2tt bike, but have to admit to lusting after that Hillborne at Jim Thill's shop. Need to come up with a justification to buy it and built it up as a 1x9 up with the Soma Oxford bars I have sitting on a shelf in the garage. Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery < thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > I kinda suspect that 90% of the 2TT is because Grant thought it would look > cool, with a side benefit that it would distinguish current Rivs from older > Rivs and most competitor frames. You can attribute various functions to the > extra tube, but, as the preceding discussion demonstrates, most are in the > realm of the theoretical. > > I have a 60 cm 2TT Sam sitting in my shop. I thought it was weird at > first, but it's growing on me, and now I like it. Probably good that it's > too big for me... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
