My Hilsen has been that one bike for a year and a half now. It's been my commuter, weekend rambler, two week tourer, fire road and singletrack shredder, and moving truck. I think it's done a great job.
That all said, I'm having a second bike built up, basically a 650B, fat tire, rough stuff porteur. I have no idea what kind of trouble it'll get me into, but I'm looking forward to it. The idea is to give me a bike that'll do two things the Homer doesn't do so great: Handle big front loads, up to 50kg. Take tires > 40mm, for the real rough n' deep stuff. Cheers cc On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:28 PM, hsmitham <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah I guess the simple answer is Yes & No. Ha! For the past year I have > made do with one bike the A. Homer Hilsen, truth be told I don't commute so > I suppose it's not that crucial to have a back up bike in case of a > failure/repair. With that said I'm a freak for bikes so back when this > topic originally popped up early this year I knew I'd be building another > bike an Atlantis, vintage Trek 850 and Trek 660 all of them "riv'ed out. > But lets just say if I could only have just one bike any of the Rivendell's > past or present would suffice. Enough said! > > Happy New Year and welcome back Jeff hope to ride with you in this new > year. > > ~Hugh > > "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep > moving." -- Albert Einstein > > http://velocipedemusings.blogspot.com/ > > > On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:10:40 AM UTC-8, Tim Tetrault wrote: >> >> What about a Sam Hilborne with a back up wheelset with cassette and >> tires/tubes installed and an extra chain in your saddlesack? >> >> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:48:04 PM UTC-8, murphyjrfk wrote: >>> >>> Suppose the title says it all. But I've been a thinking about going down >>> to 1---not a big step down cause I normally only have two three tops o' >>> working bikes anyways. And the overlap is out of control. How many 26" >>> touring bikes does one fellow need deal. But I love what I love I guess. >>> >>> One bike? Could ya do it and what would it be? >>> >> -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- "I want the kind of six pack you can't drink." -- Micah -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
