I have to reiterate a point Ray made - on the QB, its all about riding, not about the bike. And I'll also echo David when he talks about the engine being the issue. Dustin has quite a motor!
On Jan 22, 7:09 pm, Ray Shine <r.sh...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Dustin -- Not to pile on, but I'll tell you an illustrative story about the > wonderful QB. > > I had not been on mine since early December. Lately our weather has been > unseasonably superb here in San Francisco and Northern California. So, last > Sunday I decided to dust off the QB and take a spin around Paradise Point in > Tiburon. I live in the San Francisco, and door to door that is a 40 mile > trip for me. I have done it many times on the QB, and enjoy riding that > route and the QB very much. > > So, Sunday was a sparkling clear, warm day. I walked downstairs into the > dark garage. I was wearing my sunglasses. I pulled the QB out of the > corner, pumped up the tires, placed on a bottle of H2O, and got on and left. > I wanted to ride the whole route in the 32x18 gearing rather than the more > commonly used 40x18. It was my first QB ride in over a month, and I was in no > particular hurry, thinking I'd just cruise along and enjoy the day. > > So, I hop on and make the ride, traveling clockwise along the loop route > after crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. It's not a flat route, but there are > no really long or difficult grades, save possibly the return to the bridge > from Sausalito near the end of the ride. > > I stopped in Tiburon for the first and only time of the entire ride to eat my > banana and some nuts. That's a bit more than 2/3 of the total distance. I > was feeling pretty good, and thinking I might switch up to the 40x18 for the > rest of the ride. I set up to make my "Rivendell Gear Change" and was > surprised to find that I was already in the 40x18! I put an exclamation mark > at the end of the preceding sentence because I truely thought that I was > riding along in the lower gear, but found that I had never shifted down back > home in the garage, probably side-tracked with the tire inflation. As I was > wearing shades in a dark garage, I really couldn't see that I was in the > higher gear combo. > > My long-winded point is that once astride the QB, all considerations about > gears and changes and terrain sort of go by the wayside. One merely rides > just to enjoy the ride, so much so that I never once glanced down even to see > which chain ring I was using. It never entered my mind to do so like it does > on a bike with derailers. That, in my mind, is the essence and the most > delightful thing about riding the "Beam. > > Ray > > --- On Thu, 1/22/09, Dustin Sharp <dsh...@runbox.com> wrote: > From: Dustin Sharp <dsh...@runbox.com> > Subject: [RBW] Re: Let There Be Quickbeam (Orders). > To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009, 1:58 PM > > I've always wanted on of these. Kinda hard to justify one now that I am in > hilly San Diego. I needs me gears! > > Dustin > > > From: Esteban <proto...@gmail.com> > > Reply-To: <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> > > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:52:57 -0800 (PST) > > To: RBW Owners Bunch <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> > > Subject: [RBW] Re: Let There Be Quickbeam (Orders). > > > But Ethan - its now '09! (OT - I picked up at Tikit - now iBobing > > it.) > > > On Jan 22, 1:41 pm, Ethan <ethan.bickf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ooh. wish I could get one but I spent too much on bikes in 08 (a very > >> well appointed Atlantis as well as a Bike Friday folder.) Just not in > >> the budget... > > >> On Jan 22, 2:30 pm, John at Rivendell <j...@rivbike.com> wrote: > > >>> Shameless promotional plug from number-crunching GM: > > >>>http://www.rivbike.com/blogs/news_post/104 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
