My commuter is built on a Karate Monkey-framed frame I chose it for the disc brakes for all-weather, all-season, daily use. I took the rear-opening dropouts' as benign until changing a tube halfway home from work late one cold night.
It was below zero that night and those rear-opening drops advanced from benign to "Hell-bound" and" life-threatening" as my fine motor skills faded and as the the complexity of getting the wheel past and cogs unknitted from the derailleur and chain prolonged the usually nominal task. I was holding the wheel, pulling the tube out when I realized with my last rational thought that I should have ridden the flat all the way home, but then I became very calm as my hands stopped having feeling and I quit shivering. The Disc Trucker replacement is in the front hall, a nice 52 cm Nitto RM-013 on the way to match my Rambouillet's. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Sunday, May 19, 2013 1:47:45 AM UTC-4, cyclot...@gmail.com wrote: > > All the Surly FBs have rear-facing track ends, which I don't like at all. > Only downside of an otherwise very cool bike. Looking at the Salsa Mukluk > just because of the drop outs, although it's Al alloy which is not my > preference. But yeah, the Krampus looks awesome! > > Cheers, > David > > -- 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.
