[RBW] Ride Report Cache Valley Utah

[Darin G.]

Finished my second century on my Sam, the century leg of the MS 150 in
Cache Valley, Utah.  Once again, many comments about the Sam including
several people who asked me how old it was.  One guy guessed it was
from the 1960's.  I didn't notice any other Rivs on the ride, which
was odd considering the number of people participating.

This was my first time on the north loop of this event, which winds
from Logan, Utah through dairy country and small towns in into Idaho.
Anyone looking for a neat charity ride could do a lot worse.

D.G.

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Re: [RBW] Ride Report Cache Valley Utah

[James Warren]

Nice ride story. The part about the guy thinking the bike is from the 60's 
leaves me thinking the following: Did bikes from the 60's have:

upward sloping toptubes with 6 degree angles?
multiple rack braze-ons, especially the midfork and midstay ones?
135 mm rear spacing that allows 9 or 10 speed clusters?
headtubes with upward vertical extension for height?
cable-stops that allow discontinuous cable housing?
vertical rear dropouts? (I actually don't know the answer to this)

Were most of the features above even common in the 90's?

I usually get the comment that my Ram is an older bike but people don't say 
from when. Once in a while, the person has thought before they said this, and 
they say something right on target like, I'm noticing your bike: it's 
interesting in that it looks like an old classic, but all the details show 
modern components. This is my favorite comment.

The former, however, saddens me a little, because it fails to notice the 
innovative spirit behind the design of the bike: the spirit that equally values 
all good bike developments, whether they happened two minutes ago or 2 score 
years ago.

-Jim W.
 


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From: Darin G. dbg...@mac.com

about the Sam One guy guessed it was from the 1960's.  

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