There have been photos of quite a few nice Sams on the list recently, notably Paul Saporito's on the Blug and that slate gray one yesterday. (How do y'all keep your bikes so damned *clean?*). I gather that the Sam must be, if not the most popular Riv model, certainly up there with the top 3 (which are??? -- Sam, Atlantis, Appaloosa?).
Particularly interesting is the variety of builds: uprights and drop bars, touring and commuting with huge Wald baskets, and at least one recent poster converted his to his main road bike. I briefly (12 months? 18?) owned a canti Sam, perhaps the original model, in a 55, but found it straddled my particular niches too much -- wouldn't take the fat tires I need here, for dirt riding in our river sand; too beefy to feel as spritely as I want for a pure road bike -- and I had the 2 custom roads anyway. Also, the tt of that model was a bit too long, even with the slacker (72? 71.5?) sta -- I hear that later models had, relatively speaking, shorter tts. If mine had taken 50 mm tires and had a cm off the tt, it would have made a nice bosque bomber that rode well on pavement. (I think a Sam shod with 38 or 44 Compass extralights would be very nice, tho' again the tires wouldn't work, for me, in our Rio Grande river silt.) So: Am I right about the Sam being among the top 3 most popular models? And: You Sam owners: how do you build and use yours: errands, dirt, road ...? -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, New Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique ************************************************************************** ************** *Auditis an me ludit amabilis insania?* -- 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.
