Dear David, The least expensive thing to do is to double your money: fold it in half and put it back in your pocket, and you have two lovely bikes there. I'd suggest you resist the urge to shuffle bikes just 'cause.
If it is a vote, I'd go with the following process: 1. What bike that you currently own appeals most to you? Does it meet your current (not aprirational) uses for the bike? 2. Keep that one. 3. Sell the other if you must. 4. If you're curious about other bikes, get the object of interest and ride it enough to wear off the new bike glamour. This may take years if it is a really cool bike. 5. Iterate. I do like the Redwood setup a lot. Best Regards, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 11:59:32 AM UTC-6, David B wrote: > > I've had lofty goals to increase riding while working from home - those > were unrealistic with young kids - and I'm now leaning towards one 'nice' > bike as an all-rounder. I likely won't be doing road-exclusive rides, so > don't really need a 'road' bike, hence the sale of my Roadini. > > With a Roadini sale, I'll be left with the following: > Riv Redwood, 650b'd and fendered - > https://www.instagram.com/p/B_yrQRyl3T6/ > Riv Clem Smith Jr., currently w/ drops - > https://www.instagram.com/p/B-99voyFx5D/ > > What I'd really like is a bike that can take 2.1" tires and fenders and be > setup comfortably with either drops or albatross bars, and with geometry > angles somewhere between the Clem (71.5 hta/sta) and Redwood (73 hta/sta). > > I've been very attached to the Redwood, however I've been shifting to the > 'bikes are just bikes' attitude and am open to passing it along if need be. > I say 'nice' as I have a lockup train station bike and a folding bike that > I'll be keeping. > > I see potential options as: > 1. Sell Redwood, keep Clem and be okay with current setup > 2. Sell Clem, keep Redwood and be okay with 47mm tires w/ fenders > 3. Sell Redwood, sell Clem, buy an Appaloosa > 4. Sell Redwood, sell Clem, buy a Black Mountain Monstercross > 5. Ignore this desire and keep both bikes > > Note - this is not a feeler for selling either bike - if I sell the > Redwood it'll not be a bargain sale. > > Thoughts, suggestions, other options? Other options would need to fit > ~94pbh. > Thanks, > David > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a5e3567d-040b-4f64-a7c3-cb734a81321fo%40googlegroups.com.
