Well, my lightest tubed bike thus far is my Rawland Stag, at 8/5/8 standard diameter. It is by far my fastest bike in terms of my rolling average speed, but also fastest in terms of my ability to get up hills in a higher gear ratio than any of my other bikes, and the bike on which I feel the least fatigued after a long ride. I attribute this to the mystery behind the term 'planing'.
As for low trail, I'm not experienced enough. My Rawland has 37mm trail with 42mm 650B tires. Yet I still feel 'flop' when I have more than a few pounds on my front rack. In contrast, my Trek 560 with racy geometry, 60mm trail and skinny 25mm tires seems to handle a couple of pounds in a handlebar bag just dandy. I simply haven't ridden enough bikes of vastly different geometric trail to come to any meaningful conclusion. My only comment is that I was disappointed that the Stag didn't flop less, being purported as a purpose-designed low-trail, front-loading bike. My next bike will be a full-custom, with even thinner tubing and less geometric trail. So it will be interested to see how that compares with the Stag in terms of speed and also front load handling. Anton On Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:08:22 AM UTC-4, Michael wrote: > > Anyone here own a low-trail/ lightest tubing bike? > Like the Herses and Singers and the new MAP S&P, Boulder bikes, etc.? > > Do you find them really that much better performing (faster, flexier, > planier, efficient) than your "oversized" steel tubing bikes, as I have > read about in reviews of them? > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
