On the recent Seattle vs Portland Rumble ride, we had 3 Hilsens and a Hillborne do a few miles of nasty rutted jeep trail down a 4-10% grade at speed (15-30mph) for a few miles. I was amazed how completely great the bike felt on a ride I would normally do on a front suspension MTB. This was with "skinny" Cypres tires and a boxy Rando bag on the front Mark's rack with two cameras, a rain coat, and trail mix inside. I managed to pinch flat the rear tire on one of the nastier sections, but this was my fault in that I dumped some air pressure thinking I would need more traction. My biggest problem was feet slipping off the pedals on some big hits.
The country bike is a great mountain bike, and it doesn't even need fat tires if you are willing to live with a little abuse. It tracked really well for me even with a front load, and was never twitchy. Now, the Hunqapillar with Albatross, Duremes, and V's felt even more forgiving the day before, but that descent was much less knarly except for the short stretch down to the river. Mobile Brian Hanson On Jun 6, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Montclair BobbyB <montclairbob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know the Rivs are tough...I'm just not willing to bang mine up. The trails > I ride WILL eventually beat up any bike I ride, and even though I'm not > riding recklessly bike and rider inevitably will tumble; the odds are just > too great on this type of terrain. There are some fast/flowy sections I > would ride my SO... but there are other technical, rooty, rocky and steep > parts I will only ride my MTB on. It's also due to the frame sizing... I've > sized my SO and Bomba (larger) for long distance pedaling on fairly > predictable terrain; my MTB frame is sized (smaller) for tight, technical > gnarly stuff. > > Granted, it's a personal choice... but I'd be really surprised (and frankly > delighted) to run into a Riv on the MTB trails near where I live. > > On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 11:44:58 PM UTC-4, dougP 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.
