The 2017 Joe Ap forks are Atlantis-weight. The 2016s were between Sam and Atl. Both are strong..
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Wayne Naha <[email protected]> wrote: > From the Blug, on the premier of the Joe Appaloosa: > > > If it’s “half Sam, half Hunqa,” howzit different than an Atlantis? > > Boy, that’s a good, tough question and the only way to answer it is with > facts, so here they are: > > • Atlantis has a thicker/heavier duty fork. Even though we call the > Atlantis a road-touring bike, too, the heavier fork make it a heavier duty > bike. Good for an extra 60lbs or so. > > > So, it's clear that the overlap between the Appaloosa and the Atlantis has > been known all along, and the main functional distinction is that the > Atlantis is a heavier duty bike. > I have always thought that the Sam was a sort of lower cost analog of the > Homer. So it made sense to me to think of the Appaloosa as a lower cost > analog of the Atlantis. Not exactly the same in either case, but pretty > close, and for almost half the price. > > > On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 11:07:18 PM UTC-5, Reid wrote: >> >> Just read the latest Blug that goes on about the Appaloosa. Seems to make >> the case that the Appaloosa is better for touring in many cases than the >> Atlantis, and better for a wider variety of terrain. So why retain the >> Atlantis? >> >> Reid >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/rbw-owners-bunch/FS3F8Q7M86g/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
