Bill, thanks for the thoughts. I actually do think the type of bike is good for me, because I regularly haul heavy groceries - easily 30 pounds. I don't expect the Sam to be sprightly when I'm hauling weight, of course (wouldn't that be nice?). It's the when I remove all the weight and climb the same hill and don't feel much less encumbered that annoys me. I suspect that you are correct, and that my intuition has been correct and that the 60 fits less well than a smaller frame would, regardless of what my PBH says.
For the record, I've never expected the Sam to ride like a "road" bike. But I've always been surprised that, as nice as it is on the flats and downhill, it does not climb better for me. On Friday, January 6, 2017 at 7:41:27 AM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Given your height of 6'0" and your weight of 155lbs, I tend to think that > it's a combination of things. If you aren't loading the bike down with > gear, then it's easy to consider a San overbuilt for you and for how you > are using it. It's a country bike. It says so right on the decals. If > that's the case, a flexier bike with thinner and/or skinnier top tube and > down tube could feel snappier. > > My suggestions would include deciding if you want a country bike. If you > do, embrace that the Sam is a country bike. If you want a sprightly road > bike also, start targeting that. You mentioned the Atlantis, and it's a > legendary touring bike, but it's also not a sprightly road bike. A 150lb > rider on a stripped down Atlantis May similarly feel the bike is WAY > overbuilt for the load. > > Where do you live? We could brainstorm the bikes you could try out. > > Bill > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
