Rick The Legolas and Roadini have completely different tubesets. Maybe you mean geometry? That's also very different, in my view. The Legolas is a cyclocross race bike. The Roadini is a road un-racing bike. The biggest difference is that the Roadini has a much larger stack. This means it is way easier to get your bars way higher than the Legolas. The Legolas puts you in a racing position. The BB drop is 5mm smaller on the Legolas, so my Legolas with 38mm tires has about a 15mm higher BB height than my Roadini with 28mm tires.
Even though they are both bike shaped objects, especially if they both have drop bars on them, I consider them very very different. Looking for similarities between them would be limited to "they both are set up to fit me" and "when that's the bike I choose to ride, they both make me happy". I don't know if this is what you are after. If you were looking for a cyclocross racing bike, the Legolas would have been a good choice. The Roadini would not be my first choice as a budget substitute for a cyclocross racing bike. I am not a cyclocross racer, but I am a sometimes mountain bike racer and I do a lot of mountain bike riding at race level intensity. Rivendells in general are intended to be ridden with a smile on your face. The Legolas is the most stark counter-example to that. Cyclocross racing is not fun. Cyclocross racing is very short, very intense, very painful efforts over terrain that a bicycle can barely handle. Few racers are smiling in a typical cyclocross race, until afterwards. Many of my training rides are of this short, intense variety and my Legolas is intended for use in those kinds of rides. I suppose I could reconfigure the Legolas to be a substitute road bike. I could put smooth tires on it, even fenders. I could put a much taller stem, or Albastache bars like the one in the BLUG, and it becomes something other than a cyclocross race bike. I have lots of other bikes for those purposes, so I'm not planning to do that reconfiguration. I'm sure I will someday do a 70-mile road cruise on my Legolas, or a 90-mile round trip to the top of Mount Diablo and back. It's capable of those things, to be sure, but it's still first and foremost a race bike in its central core. Bill On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 4:55:31 AM UTC-8, Rick wrote: > > Bill I was admiring your Legolas post from back in April, there was some > discussion of the similarities b/w the Legolas and Roadini in tube set, > etc, was wondering what the differences are. Is there a higher bottom > bracket for cross, for instance? > > Rick. > -- 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.
