Hi Benz, thanks for sharing your experience! I do travel a lot. Internationally sometimes. So the couples make sense to me. I'm 145 pound. Huqapillar is a little overkill already for most ridings except for some really heavy load camping or grocery shopping. I shop tons of food during the qurentine. It did amazing job carrying 50lbs goods. Sometimes I carry 3 big watermelons on the front rack. It still feels very stable with a 70cm wide bar. Taking the racks off it feels like a fast gravel bike with dirt drop and supple tires. Stiffness wise, I'm not sure if it will make too much difference for me since it's already kind of overkilled. That's why I only use 2.0 - 2.3 tires for hunq. Maybe I should ask rivendell for some advice about the tube butting!
Benz Ouyang, Sunnyvale, CA <benzouy...@gmail.com> 于2020年8月6日周四 下午4:13写道： > On Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 2:56:26 PM UTC-7, Yuhan Wu wrote: >> >> Hi guys, I've decided to add ss couplers to my hunqapiller finally. >> Because I want a 29er I can easily fly with to mountains/parks or some >> gravel races like dirty kanza. I was interested in the vintage military >> bikes which has a hinge on the top and down tubes. These bikes could be >> folded and carried with shoulder straps by the soldiers. Interestingly, the >> idea is very similar to the modern couplers. But the vintage hinge locates >> in the mid point of the top tube while modern coupler is closer to the >> seatube. I heard one reason making it closer to seattube is for easier >> boxing large frames. My bike is only 54cm. So that shouldn't be an issue. > > > I don't know whether a hinged frame, even if it's a 54cm, will fit in a > 26x26x10 box, because a normal S&S coupled bike isn't packed as if it's > hinged at the couplers. Furthermore, if you're portaging your bike, I don't > know if it needs to have the frame broken down, because AFAIK, > superhuman Lael Wilcox doesn't ride a collapsible frame and she > occasionally portages her bike (mostly through trails on her routes that do > not allow cycling). > > I have a S&S coupled bike, but I have no idea if it's stiffer than a > non-S&S twin, because it wasn't converted. However, I imagine a rather big > chunk of thick-ish metal is probably stiffer than whatever tubing it > replaced. This will be your case, because you're converting and probably > won't/can't be redesigning the entire bike to accommodate the stiffer S&S > coupled tubes. > > Finally, despite owning a S&S coupled bike, I'll recommend your > reconsider/reevaluate. if you don't travel a lot, it may not be worthwhile > to retrofit S&S couplers. Use bikeflights <https://www.bikeflights.com>, > shipbikes <https://www.shipbikes.com> or something similar. These use > larger boxes, and you'll spend less effort trying to disassemble/reassemble > the bike at your destinations. Breaking down a S&S coupled bike is rather > involved (30+mins per) because it all has to fit in a small box in a > particular way. With the bicycle shippers, you can use larger boxes that > will require less disassembly. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d425e221-1e3e-41f2-ab3b-67286f4f2a78o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d425e221-1e3e-41f2-ab3b-67286f4f2a78o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Yuhan -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAOkfdxQtj%2BTBhx22OO2-tHYypKHBdk3rB3vYFaZy%3DE7c%3DV11vg%40mail.gmail.com.
