That captures exactly what I love about the Rivendell road bikes I've owned -- particularly the "snap into a different direction" with no compromise in stability. I fully agree that minutiae about tubing specs play a very small part in this compared to frame design. Grant has a magic touch there.
Interesting that even with very light 559 or 571 wheels and tires Grant's designs preserve this outstanding combination of stability, consistency, and intuitive turning. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... a salient fact about said bicycle: I've owned several Grant-designed > bikes, and they all have an hard-to-describe-if-you-haven't-experienced-it > ability to float comfortably down the road; hold a stable line in a turn; > yet snap into a different direction on a whim. I've ridden enough other > bikes in 25 years to know this is not an universal quality in frame design, > which is one of the things that makes Rivendells (and Riv-designed Herons) > special. > -- 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 ************************************* * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood * -- 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.
