All: thanks for the compliments. Very tired today, so just another very brief 6-7 mile ride, but a salient quality seems to be the Ram's utter stabillity -- stability as opposed to sluggishness. I was following my brother (and struggling to keep up, he on his 60 mm Big Apple Karate Monkey -- but then I was keeping it mostly in the 70" gear while he was shifting a lot), and he made a couple of sudden turns as he remembered his way. The Ram braked and turned without any qualms or crisis. Perhaps it feels a bit less quick to turn in than my customs, but it has been long enough since one of those had a freewheel that it's hard to really remember.
At any rate, at least unladen or, as today, with just a small (~5-7 lb) on one side of the rack, the Ram is definitely one of those superior bikes. I must try it with a heavy rear load (30-40 lb) to see if it handles rear loads better than my custom. Joe: photo with rack attached; not a good one, I' afraid -- should have removed the pannier. This particular iteration of the Fly, unlike the others I've owned, has a neat attachment that lets you use seatstay rack braze ons: these can be bolted to the single strut, that otherwise bolts to the rear brake mounting bolt, and they in turn to the braze ons. Because the Ram's rack strut braze ons are on the inside instead of outside of the stays, I had to do a bit of impromptu crushing that, while it works fine, is not quite symmetrical. This par -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
