I love my Rambouillet, and I've never been unhappy with it because of
its weight, but it is hardly a lightweight at 24-1/2 pounds for the
bike itself (i.e., the basic bike with no add-ons like water bottles,
luggage, fenders etc.) Similarly equipped, my Gunnar Sport with SS
couplers weighs about
, nick.bike.b...@gmail.com nick.bike.b...@gmail.com wrote:
From: nick.bike.b...@gmail.com nick.bike.b...@gmail.com
Subject: [RBW] Re: Who says Rivendells have to be heavy?
To: RBW Owners Bunch rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com
Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 9:36 AM
I love my Rambouillet, and I've
Exactly. Tim's bike would give up a lot of good stuff just to be a couple of
pounds lighter. Not worth it.
-Original Message-
From: Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net
Sent: May 10, 2009 8:15 AM
I could readily get my 60 cm 1996 All-Rounder under 25 lbs and
probably under 23, but the
A nice bike is a nice bike, but a * light* nice bike is a *very* nice bike.
Amen.
(Bet my 2007 Redline Monocog 29er, with fenders, 44 mm rims and 60 mm
Big Apples -- 2 lb each!!!, discs, drops, Nelson, and VO bag support,
weighs more than any of y'alls measly road rigs. It has a Honka Hoota,
Nokian Extreme 296's in the winter. Man are those things hard to spin
up! But they sure make you feel confident in the icy stuff.
On May 10, 3:03 pm, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com wrote:
A nice bike is a nice bike, but a * light* nice bike is a *very* nice bike.
Amen.
(Bet my 2007
On May 10, 2:02 pm, Tim McNamara tim...@bitstream.net wrote:
I'd guess I could take at least 5 pounds off by just unbolting stuff,
but then the bike loses a lot of it's utility- as well as much of its
difference from my other bikes. The point of having multiple bikes
IMHO is to have
on 5/10/09 1:48 PM, nick.bike.b...@gmail.com replied to:
what James Dinneen jfxdinn...@yahoo.com wrote:
If you do decide to experiment with a single speed on the trek, you might
want to start with a single speed, instead of a fixed gear. I found that it
the downside of the hills that were
OK, where'd that fixie wheel go? And I wonder if one of the cogs off
my '79 Shimano 600 cassette will work?
On May 10, 8:41 pm, CycloFiend cyclofi...@earthlink.net wrote:
on 5/10/09 1:48 PM, nick.bike.b...@gmail.com replied to:
what James Dinneen jfxdinn...@yahoo.com wrote:
If you do
I don't generally worry much about my bike's weight, but I don't think
my Riv (an original 65 cm Rivendell Road Standard purchased in 1996)
is very light. The lightest bike I've owned (sold it last year) was a
64 cm Waterford W-13 built up with all Campy Super Record components.
The W-13 weighed
