That's very true about the choice of tires! I had "armored" tires on the Atlantis when I lived in Chinle, Arizona and they felt every bit of armored when riding on pavement (but they did a stunning job of preventing punctures from goat-heads!). I feel that I mitigated the on-pavement effects of the heavy, stiff tires by running at quite low pressures. I've just acquired a set of 38c Barlow Pass tires and will be test riding those in the next couple of days.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On 05/11/2014 06:11 PM, Lyle Bogart wrote: > >> I have an Atlantis and have used it for all manner of riding (except >> attempts at land speed records ;-) ) but I've not yet done a true "loaded >> tour". I have loaded the bike down quite considerably and hauled stuff >> around. I can say without equivocation that the Atlantis offers a far more >> comfortable and "secure" ride than my old trek 720 of the early 1980s ever >> did. Also, though I've not ridden an LHT, I met a fellow who did own an LHT >> and offered him a test-ride of the Atlantis and he felt there was no >> comparison--he much preferred the feel of the Atlantis. I've not ridden any >> of the Bruce Gordon bikes, but I had been very tempted by them in the past. >> > > I owned a Bruce Gordon Rock 'n Road Tour for 10 years. It was my commuter > and my touring bike. It rode fine loaded and unloaded; not talk-like when > unloaded at all. It was, however, a very stiff frame. That's good when > you have 50 lb of gear loaded all over the bike, front and rear. Not as > marvelous when unloaded as, say, a std diam 8/5/8 frame, in my book. > > > >> Of course, a big plus, for me, with the Atlantis is the fact that it is >> just a lovely, lovely bicycle capable of going anywhere a rider might care >> to venture. >> > > It is that. > > Note, however, a poor choice of tires can suck all the goodess out of an > Atlantis. First one I ever saw in real life, at a rest stop on a ride, the > owner had just put on some kind of "ride forever over acres of broken glass > and barb wire" armored tires and he said he was so sorry it made him hate > the bicycle and regret having ever bought it. > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
