On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 07:03 -0700, usuk2007 wrote: > Yes the Ram is fastish, but I have it set up for touring with 36 spoke > wheels and a wide cassette.
Only takes a minute to swap a wheel set. You'd need another wheel set for a second bike anyway. Why not start with that, see how it works? If it's not satisfactory, buy the frame and the rest of the parts, build up a second frame. Or is this a case of hopeless bike lust in search of rationalizations? > I recently rode a friends Bianchi C2C and > enjoyed it, apart from having my hands so low. It felt a lot different > from the bikes I have and I saw an excuse for a project. So I thought > I'd do something for the economy by buying a frame with steeper angles > and shorter chainstays and build it up with a compact cassette and > some shinny Dura-Ace stuff on it. I want it to be a fairly traditional > bike so I'm sticking with steel, maybe I have a few hours on ebay in > front of me. Will steeper angles and short chainstays actually make you faster, do you think? > > On Apr 18, 7:20 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 22:19 -0700, usuk2007 wrote: > > > I love my Ram and I take my Atlantis out on tracjs regularly, but I'm > > > now in the market for some speed too. So I'm looking for a nice fast > > > bike with room for some long reach brakes. Where should I go? Mercian, > > > Independant fabrications............? > > > > The Rambouillet is not fast? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
