A while back I started thinking about a new go-fast for riding with the local club. The difference isn't so much weight, it's geometry. An upright position just doesn't work when you're trying to keep up in a fast paceline, and I find it hard to climb fast out of the saddle if the hoods are up high as they have been on my Riv Road Std. If speed is the goal, lower bars and a bit steeper seat angle to match are appropriate. Though a used Riv Road is a fine go-fast if you can find one your size!
I like the Indy Fab Club Sport. IF still offers a steel fork as stock, not too common these days. The Club Sport takes long reach brakes and widish tires. IF makes the welded steel Hampstens, which are another nice choice. The Seven Axiom Steel also looks very nice. Never ridden one, but saw one up in Davis, very nice, clean, tight TIG welds, quite good looking in a modern non-lugged way. Crabon fork and short reach, but it's supposed to clear a 32 mm tire, which is quite unusual. Waterford built my Riv, builds some current AHH's, and can build pretty much anything you could want, lugged or welded. They have a Sport Touring series that uses long reach brakes. Then there are all of the local builders, no idea where you are or who's near you. I wound up finding a frame on Craigslist that's rather silly and very light and would be pretty out of place here. Only paid a third of what it would go for new. It fits me, the tubes are round, the angles sensible, and the bars not absurdly low (it was built with a 2 cm head tube extension), and it was made by a well known company here in Nor Cal. I expect to ride it for a couple of years and trade it off again without losing too much on it, learn something from owning it, and satisfy my curiosity. And I still have the Riv! Bill On Apr 17, 10:19 pm, usuk2007 <[email protected]> wrote: > I love my Ram and I take my Atlantis out on tracjs regularly, but I'm > now in the market for some speed too. So I'm looking for a nice fast > bike with room for some long reach brakes. Where should I go? Mercian, > Independant fabrications............? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
