My wife and I are spending a week in northern AZ, which included a day of mountain biking in Sedona. We rented fancy dual-suspension, carbon fiber wonderbikes which are about as anti-Riv as you can get — and it was a fantastic experience! I’ve never ridden such a beast before, and was amazed at the terrain it could handle in the hands of a newcomer to this style of riding. It’s the most fun I’ve had on a bike in years.
I had a Gus in my shopping cart when they were last on sale, but ultimately didn’t go through with the purchase because I want to be free to experiment with builds that depart from the Riv way of doing things, such as IGHs and disc brakes. And now I’m doubly glad I held off, because I am giving serious consideration to buying a fully modern mountain bike. In retrospect I think I gave too much credence to the idea of underbiking. There’s no way I could have handled this sort of terrain on a Riv-style bike — I would have been walking it the entire time. And while that may be the lowest common gear, as a former commenter here liked to say, it wouldn’t have been nearly as fun. So I guess this is part confession and part query — who else mixes and matches their Rivendells with the sort of modern ironmongery that would give Grant & Co. conniptions? Jay Lonner Bellingham, WA (but temporarily in Sedona, AZ) -- 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/48b47843-9eac-4d18-80c1-8b7a433e24fdn%40googlegroups.com.
