Lum, Big congrats on losing 33 pounds!
Weight of both you and your bikes are heading in the same direction :) I have read a few posts from you making a case for a lighter Riv. Now I'm finally considering building one! Thinking whether to go with a Roadini or MIT Hilsen. Hilsen can be Jobst style go anywhere bike. I ran into Riv brand while researching how to make my road bike more comfier. This is a modern road bike Reynolds tubing, Campy gruppo, etc. It is quite good. I raised the handlebar with steer tube extender and what not, but the riding position (after 30 mins or so) never got to the point of my liking. After riding Joe A with Albatross and later Bosco, there was no going back. The other evening I had prepped my road bike for riding up Mt Diablo next morning. But in the morning, 5 mins before starting to drive to Danville I decided to pick up Joe A (who's 12 lbs heaver), knowing that a lot of climbing. This is how much I prefer the comfort that Grant's design offers (riding position/frame design, road imperfections getting absorbed up by the stem/handlebar/tire combo etc). It was a harder to go up. Took longer. Still I, somehow, enjoying being on Joe A's saddle than the other bike. Replacing the road bike with a Riv design might change things a bit. While for most (70%?) of the rides (around the town rides, grocery/farmers market trips, sight seeing trips to close by towns, rides with kid trailer..) will still happen on Joe A (who sports 2" Schwalbe Almotions or WTB horizon depending on the week), there are times I'd enjoy riding riding a lighter bike: when I'm in a mood to ride bike to work occasionally (21 miles each way) or going up one of the many mountains around here, etc. So begins a new bike project... On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 09:52:50 UTC-7, Lum Gim Fong wrote: > > I know the theory but not sure I subscribe to the RBW “weight ruse”. > > You have to get that bike up that hill somehow. So that weight counts. > > I lost thirty-three pounds of fat off my body this summer on keto diet and > the hills are still tough. But 22lb Roadeo makes it way easier than 25lb > Ram and 27lb Sam and 27lb Bleriot. > > -- 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.
