I love riding my Hillborne and don't even know what it weighs. I know I weigh 257 so it makes little difference to me if my bike weighs 2-5 pounds less than another one. I own an 80's go fast standard dimension Columbus SL tubed bicycle and it is no faster or more comfortable for me to ride. I put quite a few miles on three other frames similarly constructed with old school skinny tubing of varying thicknesses and my best ride so far has been my Surly Trucker with oversized tubing and my new (two top tubed) Hillborne. Maybe at my weight, I need them. A pure performance bike probably should have a more flexible frame and tuned to rider weight but I want a frame to last and will gladly give up a slight edge in performance for that feature.
On Saturday, January 12, 2013 9:33:04 PM UTC-8, Scot Brooks wrote: > > I spend about equal time on my Sam Hillborne and my Soma Double Cross. To > abbreviate the way they're normally set up, the Sam's got a 40/24 12-36 > drivetrain, 35c Soma New Xpress tires, front rack/basket/Shopsack. The > Soma's got a 48/34 11-34 drivetrain, 35c Schwalbe Marathon Racers, front > rack, front and rear Sackville bags. > > Anyway, I always assumed that my Soma was kind of a lightweight go-fast > bike with it's fancy Tange Prestige tubing and slightly more aggressive > geometry (shorter chain stays anyway). Compared to the Sam, it just takes > off like crazy and *feels *incredibly quick and nimble. Lo-and-behold, I > got one of those hook scale things today, and the total weight of each bike > was 35lbs for the Sam and 31lbs for the Soma. > > I thought it was the weight that explained the difference in feel, but > clearly that's not the case. Both are equally pleasurable to ride, but > there must be far more factors involved in the overall "feel" of each bike > than I might have guessed. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ZL0SX6NZRh0J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
