Patrick: As a happy Atlantis owner since 2003, I'm partial but I can also see 5 months being a long time. Much depends on what type of touring he wants to do. If it's fully self-contained, camping, cooking, for weeks on end, and he'll need to carry 4 bags plus junk on a rack, then either the Atlantis of the Hunq would be the Rivendell way to go. I don't know about the differences in frame tubing between the two but if you load a bike down with 40 lbs or more, they wouldn't feel a lot different. On the other hand, if he's interested in say week long lodging tours and can get by with a couple of bags, Sam would do the trick nicely. Heck, Sam would probably work fine for loaded touring but you may need to be more thoughtful about weight placement than on a Hunq or Atlantis.
I've taken my Atlantis on long 4 bag camping tours, lodging trips, S24Os, off-roading, and it's my daily ride. So I'm actually beyond biased, more like predjudiced. It works for all my needs. Were I buying a bike today for those types of riding, it would be coin toss between the Hunq & the Atlantis. dougP On Sunday, May 11, 2014 2:56:17 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I know that the Atlantis is R's most popular model (I think it is anyway) > and I know many listmembers use them for touring. I asked this question on > the iBoblist and got many responses, but perhaps asking it here in a more > focused fashion will raise more guiding advice about the choice as loaded > touring bike of the Atlantis in particular. > > I have a client who is a surgeon (ie, he can afford what he wants) who > wants to do some loaded touring. We got to talking and I quickly > recommended the Atlantis, and he was very interested. > > I got an email from him yesterday; apparently he had called Rivendell to > ask for their catalogue and discovered that there is a 5 month waiting list > for the Atlantis. > > My question to yawl is: considering other possibilities from the LHT to a > custom Bruce Gordon, is the Atlantis, *as touring bike*, special enough to > warrant a wait? Or would you advise other choices? > > He presently has a Trek 1420 that is about 15 years old; don't know > anything about that model. > > What about a Hunquapillar? -- too beefy/off road built? Sam Hillborne? > > Me, having owned a Sam Hill and now owning a Ram with clearance for 35 mm > Kojaks and fenders, I'd probably opt for the Ram for touring, flex be > damned. > > Thanks, Patrick > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis > > ************************************* > > "In yourself right now is all the place you've got." > Flannery O'Connor > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
