I bought Riv's floor model, 56 cm Waterford canti SH, last March and rode it for six months. It had very good qualities as an all rounder type of bike, but I found it -- built as Riv had built it -- rather doggish in cruising and climbing modes, leaving out handling qualities that I did not like and that differed markedly from my other Rivs. I am sure that, with lighter wheels and kit it would have felt faster, but again, as built by Riv, it was no faster than my much heavier (even!) and fatter tired (65 MM, 800 gram Big Apple Liteskins on 800 gram 45 mm SnoCat SL rims) Fargo (measured by computer readouts) that is built up much the same (and with many of the parts from the SH) except for the disk brakeset.
Me, for current Riv offerings, I'd choose something like a Bombadil or Hunq and a Roadeo. Patrick "fuddy duddy speeds with world class effort" Moore On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Thomas Lynn Skean <thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi, all! > > @Eric Platt.... > > Surely everyone has their own expectations / desires out of a bike. > So, in my ignorance of The World of Cycling, it certainly makes sense > to me that no one bike or style of bike is going to fulfill everyone's > riding dreams. > > I'm really enjoying my Hillborne. Surely it does not limit me. But I > also know that, even though I'm a fuddy-duddy and am happy to follow > for years patterns that many people consider ruts, *someday* (next > year? 2025? after our ant overlords have established their reign?) I > might get tired of riding my Hillborne bolt upright around in my flat > little realm carrying 20+ lbs of gear at 15mph in the suburbs west of > Chicago. At that point, I'd love to find something different in the > world of cycling that I can enjoy. I think cycling itself is cool; not > just riding my Hillborne. > > So I'd love to know more specifics about how it is that your Hillborne > limits you. The things you find your Hillborne limits you in doing may > be things I could investigate as different ways to enjoy cycling on > that fateful day. And, as a more practical matter, I'm toying with the > idea of getting another bike sometime in the next year or so. It's a > major purchase, so I want to consider it carefully. Given that I keep > the Hillborne, what kind of bike would complement it, would do what it > can't do or does poorly? Having perspectives on what it is the > Hillborne does poorly or even just not-so-well would help. > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean > > On Jan 10, 7:52 am, EricP <ericpl...@aol.com> wrote: >> Guess that means I have never qualified, as have never been able to >> pass another rider. >> >> Strangely enough, been finding more and more that my Rivendell is the >> most limited (and limiting) bike. Maybe it's time to move on. >> Somebody is probably going to get a good deal on a built up Sam >> Hillborne soon. >> >> Eric Platt >> St. Paul, MN >> >> On Jan 10, 6:45 am, robert zeidler <zeidler.rob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > +1 >> >> > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Kelly Sleeper <tkslee...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > Well this is the "Riv Owners Group" what better place to be snarky? >> > > I say Snark on.. we aren't that thin skinned. >> >> > > Kelly > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
