It's going to be fun seeing what Rivendell comes up with for a mountain bike but I think they will be really missing the boat if they don't enter world of Plus tires. I don't remember if that has been ruled out or maybe the no disk brakes decision rules them out? I don't know if cantilevers or V-brakes will work with 3" tires.
As things currently stand, the original advocate for fatter tires is getting left behind by the mainstream, where modern MTB tire widths start where RBW's end. On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 2:24:19 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Till wrote: > > This might be a stretch, but hey, what's the fun in following a guru if > you can't spend hours parsing his words and interpreting them? I think > there might be a hint towards an upcoming trail-oriented Riv (or update to > an existing Riv) hidden in this passage from Grant's post yesterday > <https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/peeking-through-the-knothole/sjdflsjfl-april-26> > : > > In mountain bike racing and just riding, it's gone the other way. The >> early guys were riding unsuitably low-tech bikes, then bikes reached a >> basic good level of appropriate technology in the late '80s, and now >> they've borrowed as much as possible—for now—from cars and motorcycles. >> There are reactions to it the other way, with one-speed mountain bikes, but >> those are fading fast because...one gear is too limiting for varied >> terrain. *There's no restraint at that end, and we're going to show 'em >> all what-for sometime late this year, if we can pull it off.* > > > I wonder what it could be...the before-hinted plus-tire Hunqapillar? > Bringing back the Bombadil (probably can't be done under the LOTR gag > order)? Some other new trail-oriented rig? > > Honestly, I'm pretty satisfied with my Jones-barred Clem as my MTB > (well...a threadless fork would be nice), so I'm not anxiously awaiting > anything, but it would be interesting to see what they come up with. > > Let the speculation begin! > -- 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.
