I'm a strong advocate of not reading too much navel-gazing analyses of geometry and other BS, and JUST RIDE. That said...
It could be that what makes an optimal bike for brevets in the Cascades is somewhat different than what goes into GP's family of all-rounders that get tested on the rocky goat paths of Shell Ridge in Walnut Creek. Sure, a lot of Riv owners and enthusiasts get seduced by the romance of brevets, but I've never read GP expressing much interest in brevets, or in optimizing his bikes for Jan's front-loaded version of brevets. Undersized tubing? Maybe it's not obvious to everybody, but a lot of plus-sized people are drawn to Riv by the promise of high-bar comfort and sturdiness. Put some chugging 270-pounder on a bike with undersized tubes, and it's likely to get a bit too exciting to be enjoyable. I come down on the Riv side. I shy away from the faintest whiff of daintiness and anything that seems French. I draw a lot more parallels between RBW and Surly than I do between RBW and the integrated rando bike concept. -- 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.
