I was very tired yesterday, so only chased my brother to the store and back, some 6-7 miles rt. But this ride did include a fastish, ~1 mile downhill with turns, and it did include some last minute brake-'n'-turns as my brother remembered a turn at the last minute.
The quality that jumped out from this little ride was neutrality, not in the sense of bland, but in the sense that the bike disappears -- causes no problems. It seems very, very stable without hesitating or over-reacting to steering input -- the sort of handling that allows you to sit up and ride one-handed as you look over your shoulder while rolling fast downhill. I would guess that the 35 mm tires help bring out this particular sweetness in the frame -- would you other owners of Rams describe the handling in the same way, and (2) does this depend on tires of a certain width? What would the Ram handle like with 28s? -- I have no desire to install 28s, but I'm curious to learn if 35s are the ideal match. Must add hooks for the bungees of my grocery panniers and try the bike with a 30-40 lb rear load. More as the miles come. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:26 AM, samh <rbwown...@yahoo.com> wrote: > That's a fine looking bike, Patrick. Many years ago, I wanted to buy a > 68cm Ram and to my surprise a local dealer had one in his shop. It was > painted in the new blue color, like yours. I test road it, and I liked it, > but I preferred the old orange color, so I passed on the bike. After > seeing your bike, now I prefer the blue! I'm interested in hearing more > about how you like the ride. > > > On Sunday, April 7, 2013 3:25:22 PM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Whoops: photos here. >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:23 PM, PATRICK MOORE <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> All: thanks for the compliments. Very tired today, so just another very >>> brief 6-7 mile ride, but a salient quality seems to be the Ram's utter >>> stabillity -- stability as opposed to sluggishness. I was following my >>> brother (and struggling to keep up, he on his 60 mm Big Apple Karate Monkey >>> -- but then I was keeping it mostly in the 70" gear while he was shifting a >>> lot), and he made a couple of sudden turns as he remembered his way. The >>> Ram braked and turned without any qualms or crisis. Perhaps it feels a bit >>> less quick to turn in than my customs, but it has been long enough since >>> one of those had a freewheel that it's hard to really remember. >>> >>> At any rate, at least unladen or, as today, with just a small (~5-7 lb) >>> on one side of the rack, the Ram is definitely one of those superior bikes. >>> I must try it with a heavy rear load (30-40 lb) to see if it handles rear >>> loads better than my custom. >>> >>> Joe: photo with rack attached; not a good one, I' afraid -- should have >>> removed the pannier. >>> >>> This particular iteration of the Fly, unlike the others I've owned, has >>> a neat attachment that lets you use seatstay rack braze ons: these can be >>> bolted to the single strut, that otherwise bolts to the rear brake mounting >>> bolt, and they in turn to the braze ons. Because the Ram's rack strut braze >>> ons are on the inside instead of outside of the stays, I had to do a bit of >>> impromptu crushing that, while it works fine, is not quite symmetrical. >>> >>> This par >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://resumespecialties.com/**index.html<http://resumespecialties.com/index.html> >> patric...@**resumespecialties.com >> ______________________________**______________________________** >> ______________ >> > -- > 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-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- http://resumespecialties.com/index.html patrickmo...@resumespecialties.com __________________________________________________________________________ -- 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-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
