[RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

[Fullylugged]

I rode my blue Ram on 30+ miles of gravel (out of a 54 mile ride) a few weeks 
ago, on Panaracer 1 1/2" tires. I had too much air in them for gravel, but the 
bike was still fine.

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Re: [RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

[Matt]

Love the simplicity of the green Ram in the ferns. Very nice!


On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 12:40:43 PM UTC-7, Tommy Patterson wrote:
>
> Great photos everyone. Here's my Ram down in Southern Mississippi. I made 
> my first post about this bike a few months ago and I love how it rides!  
>
> I am about to move to NOLA, and I can see myself ditching the fenders to 
> cram wider tires for rough, Louisiana roads. I have 44mm compass tires on 
> my CX bike (zero flats in ~ 600 miles of mixed terrain riding), so I'll 
> have to pick up some 38s to run on my Ram.
>
> Happy Friday Y'all,
> Tommy  
>
>   
>
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Matt  
> wrote:
>
>> Mark—No worries! That storm damage looked pretty extensive. Always like 
>> to hear how things are upstate. Miss it! Don't so much miss getting rides 
>> back to Brooklyn with my cousin doing 80 on the Taconic...
>>
>>
>> On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 3:58:50 AM UTC-7, Mark in Beacon wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Matt, didn't mean to derail or hijack your post with stormy tales 
>>> and old bikes! That Ram is a beauty. Beacon has undergone some big changes 
>>> in the last few years. If you're ever back this way, give a holler!
>>>
>>> On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 7:39:01 PM UTC-4, Matt wrote:

 Mark—Oh, wow! My mom's family is from Newburgh/Pine Bush. I spent a lot 
 of time up there when I lived in the city; a lot of Metro North to Beacon.


 On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 12:56:26 PM UTC-7, Lum Gim Fong wrote:
>
> Yay!! New Rambouilet pics online!!!
> My favorite Rivmodel!! Thanks for the pics!! 
>
 -- 
>> 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 rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com .
>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com 
>> .
>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>>
>
>

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

[Matt]

Mark—No worries! That storm damage looked pretty extensive. Always like to 
hear how things are upstate. Miss it! Don't so much miss getting rides back 
to Brooklyn with my cousin doing 80 on the Taconic...

On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 3:58:50 AM UTC-7, Mark in Beacon wrote:
>
> Hey Matt, didn't mean to derail or hijack your post with stormy tales and 
> old bikes! That Ram is a beauty. Beacon has undergone some big changes in 
> the last few years. If you're ever back this way, give a holler!
>
> On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 7:39:01 PM UTC-4, Matt wrote:
>>
>> Mark—Oh, wow! My mom's family is from Newburgh/Pine Bush. I spent a lot 
>> of time up there when I lived in the city; a lot of Metro North to Beacon.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 12:56:26 PM UTC-7, Lum Gim Fong wrote:
>>>
>>> Yay!! New Rambouilet pics online!!!
>>> My favorite Rivmodel!! Thanks for the pics!! 
>>>
>>

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

['Mark in Beacon' via RBW Owners Bunch]

Hey Matt, didn't mean to derail or hijack your post with stormy tales and 
old bikes! That Ram is a beauty. Beacon has undergone some big changes in 
the last few years. If you're ever back this way, give a holler!

On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 7:39:01 PM UTC-4, Matt wrote:
>
> Mark—Oh, wow! My mom's family is from Newburgh/Pine Bush. I spent a lot of 
> time up there when I lived in the city; a lot of Metro North to Beacon.
>
>
> On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 12:56:26 PM UTC-7, Lum Gim Fong wrote:
>>
>> Yay!! New Rambouilet pics online!!!
>> My favorite Rivmodel!! Thanks for the pics!! 
>>
>

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

[Matt]

Patrick—Yes, I was the one that just sold the Bon Jons. The old Ram specs 
chart I found said max 37mm so didn't want to chance it, but as soon as I 
got them mounted it was clear the 38s would fit. (And of course right after 
that I found a thread someone posted with the same experience... so it 
goes...) I still have the stock Araya rims and that's what they're on. 
They've got enough clearance that I've had no issues over 100+ miles with 
them over pretty much every terrain—hard pack, loose gravely sand, some 
single track (slowly) and narrow rocky and rooty trails. I know it's 
cliche, but they've really remade this bike into something I didn't realize 
it already was. 

Everybody says Compass tires are great but they'll flat all day. And, of 
course, I did 60+ miles through all the rough stuff only to get a flat 
descending on a paved canyon highway. That said, though, it was dusk and I 
was only using a headlamp so I didn't see the debris I hit, which was big 
enough to feel, so with proper lights it likely wouldn't have happened and 
two, the nail I took out was the same kind of nail I've pulled from my 
Marathons on my commuter. So I'm chalking this one up as a fluke.

Mark—Oh, wow! My mom's family is from Newburgh/Pine Bush. I spent a lot of 
time up there when I lived in the city; a lot of Metro North to Beacon.

Keith—I was the same way! A guy on that ride even asked me if I ever rode 
my Ram because it was so pristine but that's only because all the miles on 
it were paved (and I used to be a fastidious bike washer but now I'm over 
it).



On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 12:56:26 PM UTC-7, Lum Gim Fong wrote:
>
> Yay!! New Rambouilet pics online!!!
> My favorite Rivmodel!! Thanks for the pics!! 
>

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

[Lum Gim Fong]

Yay!! New Rambouilet pics online!!!
My favorite Rivmodel!! Thanks for the pics!! 

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

[T Cal]

Great photos, Matt.  I live in Santa Monica and use my Hillborne on the 
fire roads.  My Rambouillet lives in the Owens Valley / Long Valley and 
stays mostly on the road.  

Keith -- I agree that we are spoiled in California.  Even last year when 
the ski mountain got 45 feet of snow, there were plenty of days when my 
family went skiing while I went biking.  This year there was less snow.  
Still plenty of snow for skiing, but the riding all winter was quite good.


 Upper 
Owens River (riv content = good trout fishing)


Ram
 
with Mammoth Mountain in the distance


Ram
 
at terminus of Crowley Lake, the dam above Owens River Gorge


On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 7:24:02 AM UTC+3, Matt wrote:
>
> In 2003 the only bike I owned was a mid-70s 3-speed Raleigh Sport that I 
> rode to work every day and locked up on the street. Somehow I got my hands 
> on a Reader, Grant's philosophy resonated with me and next thing I knew I 
> had a blue Ram. I didn't know the first thing about tire sizes and riding 
> styles but I knew the Ram was comfortable and it could take fenders and I 
> was only ever going to ride on pavement on the east coast, so I put 28s on 
> it and never looked back. Many, many years later and now I'm on the west 
> coast and I know a lot more about bikes and I also know about fire roads. 
> So I finally hung the fenders up and maxed out the tires and wouldn't you 
> know it, but Los Angeles has miles and miles of dirt roads (doesn't hurt 
> that LA covers a massive area). Took a ride a few weeks back that looks 
> downright country but happened to be in the second largest city in the US.
>
> I still have that Raleigh, btw, and it's still perfect for leaving outside.
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/QPUjLMgJOP8jEhx22
>

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

[WETH]

Matt,
Great photos.  It is great how versatile Rivs are and how they can 
adequately handle so many different riding conditions.
We are on day 5 of constant rain in the mid-Atlantic, so your sunny photos 
are a nice antidote.
Thanks,
Erl

On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 12:24:02 AM UTC-4, Matt wrote:
>
> In 2003 the only bike I owned was a mid-70s 3-speed Raleigh Sport that I 
> rode to work every day and locked up on the street. Somehow I got my hands 
> on a Reader, Grant's philosophy resonated with me and next thing I knew I 
> had a blue Ram. I didn't know the first thing about tire sizes and riding 
> styles but I knew the Ram was comfortable and it could take fenders and I 
> was only ever going to ride on pavement on the east coast, so I put 28s on 
> it and never looked back. Many, many years later and now I'm on the west 
> coast and I know a lot more about bikes and I also know about fire roads. 
> So I finally hung the fenders up and maxed out the tires and wouldn't you 
> know it, but Los Angeles has miles and miles of dirt roads (doesn't hurt 
> that LA covers a massive area). Took a ride a few weeks back that looks 
> downright country but happened to be in the second largest city in the US.
>
> I still have that Raleigh, btw, and it's still perfect for leaving outside.
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/QPUjLMgJOP8jEhx22
>

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[RBW] Re: Ram in the Dirt

['Mark in Beacon' via RBW Owners Bunch]

Lovely! Just got back from a rainy 6am jaunt. We had a crazy weather event 
here in the Hudson Valley on Tuesday, and the damage is extreme: Many many 
trees, power lines, roofs, etc. are down. We had to take different roads, 
and on the path sections, I had to climb over or around at least a dozen 
trees within a two-mile stretch. Massive trees were literally uprooted from 
the earth. Governor Cuomo declared a state of emergency here. Most of 
Newburgh is still without power, schools still closed. I'm heading to our 
local farm later this afternoon to help rebuild the high tunnel. Pics:  
https://tinyurl.com/y8me2tdb

Common Ground Farm high tunnel and shed:


 



Here is a photo (with similar pose & color scheme) of the type of bicycle 
that inspired the Ram, my Takara Model 8, a mid-70s sport tourer from 
Japan. It can take Compass Barlows with fenders; here it has Soma Supple 
Vitesse SLs, 700 x 42. This morning it was shod with BG Rock and Road 700 x 
43:






On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 12:24:02 AM UTC-4, Matt wrote:
>
> In 2003 the only bike I owned was a mid-70s 3-speed Raleigh Sport that I 
> rode to work every day and locked up on the street. Somehow I got my hands 
> on a Reader, Grant's philosophy resonated with me and next thing I knew I 
> had a blue Ram. I didn't know the first thing about tire sizes and riding 
> styles but I knew the Ram was comfortable and it could take fenders and I 
> was only ever going to ride on pavement on the east coast, so I put 28s on 
> it and never looked back. Many, many years later and now I'm on the west 
> coast and I know a lot more about bikes and I also know about fire roads. 
> So I finally hung the fenders up and maxed out the tires and wouldn't you 
> know it, but Los Angeles has miles and miles of dirt roads (doesn't hurt 
> that LA covers a massive area). Took a ride a few weeks back that looks 
> downright country but happened to be in the second largest city in the US.
>
> I still have that Raleigh, btw, and it's still perfect for leaving outside.
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/QPUjLMgJOP8jEhx22
>

-- 
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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.