I would not hesitate to dirt tour on my Cheviot. It is the 60cm version and can fit 50mm tires. Not talking fat bike style expedition touring, but gravel roads and bay area type single track should not pose a problem. Of course all a matter of how much you carry and how well you pick your lines.
Clayton Scott SF, CA On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 4:45:31 PM UTC-7, A. L Young wrote: > > I agree with Drew - the Clementine I rode seemed a lot beefier than even > the Cheviot. I wouldn't be afraid to tour a bit on the Cheviot that I > bought for my wife. In fact, recently we loaded it up with rear panniers > (lightly loaded, to be fair), medium saddle bag, and the Wald basket up > front and went for a short overnight tour. If you balance the load right, > then for road touring it's no problem. Off road touring, on the other > hand, would require a very different bike. > > When I rode the Clementine I wanted to take it on some nice rolling single > track. That seemed to me like it would be a perfect use for that bike. > Maybe it was the big knobbly tires. :) > > Aaron Young > The Dalles, OR > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:27 PM, James Warren <jimcw...@earthlink.net > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> The Riv spectrum certainly includes bikes not intended for centuries or >> full touring. So I'd guess that trading off those things to make the >> Clementine practical and fun were part of the design. I rode it yesterday; >> it rides really nice. I could easily see it for afternoon fun rides that >> make you sweat, with those monster tire allowances taking your on trails to >> help provide that sweat. For me, that would be the fun part. In addition, I >> would not consider it a century bike or a loaded touring bike. >> >> Another way of looking at it: consider the world of practical, basic >> mixtes. Now consider those bikes benefiting from Riv improvements: long >> chainstays, serious tire clearance, awesome rack braze-ons and fender >> mounts and well-thought-out kickstand plate and pump peg*. That's what the >> Clementine seems like to me. >> >> (*I think the Clementine has a pump peg; not 100% sure.) >> >> -Jim W. >> Los Angeles usually, Berkeley temporarily >> >> >> On Jul 7, 2015, at 2:34 PM, Wayne Naha wrote: >> >> > I really like the black Clemintine, the one pictured on the Blug is >> luscious. But I admit, I am scared of the swoop down top tube. It just >> seems so mechanically not well thought out. A mixte has a much better >> design for dealing with frame stresses, that seems like a reasonable >> frame. But this Clemintine, could it do a loaded tour? Could one do a >> century on such a bike? It does seem great for around town, short trips >> and such. But I can't see doing trails on it. Wouldn't it be too flexy? >> I was trying to convince my wife to get one when I realized that I wanted >> one. But the frame design worries at me. >> > >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> 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.
