Over time I have moved to simplicity. Fewer gears - my road bike is a true ten speed, my commuter / light tourer is a 1x5, and will have a single speed for heavy touring off road. Less pizazz/paint - road bike has simple cinelli lugs one color, commuter is raw stainless fillet braze, single speed is satin chrome plate. On the practical side, integrated lights and braze on brakes for the commuter and tourer. Commuter is low trail front bias. Have a full size Swift Industry porteur bag on porter rack. The Chrome will be set up for low rider racks and panniers.
On Saturday, March 1, 2014 10:57:59 PM UTC-6, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > I dislike categories, but my bike preferences now are definitely in the > range between off-pavement touring bikes and fat bikes. Sold my Surly Disc > Trucker today, which leaves me with a Surly Ogre with 29x2.35 tires as my > "road bike". I also have a Surly ECR and a Moonlander. This all started > with me trying to cram the biggest tires possible onto my Atlantis, yet > wanting a little more rubber to ride the sand along the Minnesota River > bottoms. A few years ago, I really wanted to like road bikes, and to be a > randonneur, but I just couldn't maintain my interest level in that kind of > thing. Now I'm only interested in bikes that can go almost anywhere. If I > had to pick one, it'd probably be the Moonlander or Surly's new Ice Cream > Truck. -- 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.
