Tim -- nice build. I had in mind another Sam, also drops, but IIRC the drops were lower. But a slate blue with cream; was that a stock color?
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Tim Bantham <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick, I'm not sure if mine was one that you had commented on but if so > I thank you for the compliment. Mine was purchased in 2016. It was the > version prior to the canti Sam available now. The paint on mine is a stock > color. More of a light blue and cream two tone. Looks amazing in person. I > heard the orange one is much faster. (wink wink) One recommendation I > learned about on this board was to go with the Compass Barlow Pass tires > with extra light casing. I will say without a shadow of a doubt that those > tires are the best riding tires I have ever had the pleasure to experience. > They are just about perfect for the Sam. This is a great bike for its > versatility. I am enjoying it so much now that I have it as my main road > bike. Thats not to say I wouldn't enjoy it any less had I set it up again > with the Albatross bars. > > Tim > > On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 10:50:13 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> 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. > -- 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.
