Guess it depends on the trails. There are some around here where I can ride my SO. Others are tracks so deep the cranks hit the sides and with enough fall-offs that I'd prefer wider tires and some sort of shock. In fact, many of the trails in Minnesota now seem to be maintained/modified specifically for shocked bikes.
Will still say go for it. The SO will stand up to the abuse. Mine handles my oversized body on it with no complaint and that's certainly more stress than a trail will cause. Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:44 PM, dougP <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > As a counterpoint, people have warned for years that I may ruin my > Atlantis using it off road. So far, only the paint has been damaged and > that's mostly my fault for heaving it over gates & such and my tendency to > fall off every 10 miles or so when on trails. Rivendells are tough > bicycles. > > dougP > > > On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 7:06:15 PM UTC-7, Montclair BobbyB wrote: >> >> Justin: >> >> That sounds tempting, but don't you worry eventually you may end up >> thrashing your SO? I mean Wissahickon is pretty rocky, right? Preserve >> the SO for long life; I say get yourself a nice steel MTB. In fact you >> should bring your SO up to Lambertville some time. I'll give you an awesome >> tour of our local MTB trails (and you can even try out my spare Niner MCR >> steel 29er). Save your SO for the pub ride, later. In fact I'll bring MY >> SO, too. >> Peace, >> BobbyB >> > -- > 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. > > > -- 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.
