Awesome responses! Cheers! cm
On Aug 31, 9:16 pm, erik jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > The answer depends (and also doesn't depend) on your strength/attitude and > the strength/attitude of the riders-of-carbon to whom you aspire to keep up > with. I pass lycra/carbon surprisingly often when climbing with my > forty-bespoken atlantis wearing chacos and a t-shirt. I would never consider > myself a fast rider, but ride for practical uses daily and on longish rides > 3-4 times week. > My point then--if you don't care to race to the point where you're counting > seconds (minutes are ok) and your friends ride recreationally-but-on-carbon, > get a rivendell. If you do want to race or your friends fancy themselves > lance, get a rivendell, ride a lot and you'll be fine. In both cases you'll > be better off than 99% of folks who ride carbon because they heard it was > the best. It will be some time before you'd be winning races on any bike, > anyway, if you're getting started. > > And of course, > it'll be hard for anyone on a carbon road bike to follow you on the > fire trails/singletrack/camping detours which is where you'll find > yourself more and more as you explore. > > For your purposes, an AHH is a great match. It all comes back to that 3 > pound frame difference only being 1.5% of total rider+bicycle weight. > There's no reason to sacrifice safety, versatility, comfort (looks too) to > imagine you'll be going any faster up the mountain with your friends. > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:02 PM, R Gonet <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > All other things being equal, I don't think you're going to be able to > > keep up with your friends on carbon when riding an AHH. But I think > > you'll have more fun than they do if you poke around some gravel or > > dirt roads, which would not be accessible to them. > > > My experience with the AHH is limited to using the Jack Brown 33.33 cm > > tires and I think they are good all rounders. I use them on pavement, > > gravel, mud, and dirt and they work as advertised at the RBW site. > > -- > berkeley, ca > bikenoir.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
