Looking good, Edwin!. I like how even in different builds these Clems tend to just have a good solid "bikeyness" to them. They're never really any particular type of bike, just, yanno, a bike.
As an update on mine with the albastache, I was finally able to get back on it this morning after a few days off from a leg injury. In the meanwhile, I switched to an 80mm dirt drop stem I got off another group member, and it works exactly as advertised when paired with the albstache. Tall and close. I probably could have lived with the 80mm Technomic, it was comfy and fine, but it was biased a bit more towards the sporty end, and felt just a bit short of comfy upright back in the wings. Not a problem now. In the wings it has a very north roads upright feel, I have a back angle maybe somewhere in the 70 degree range. Pleasant for slowing down and taking things in. But unlike the north roads I have the spots through the hooks, and then on the brake bodies was great this morning ducking out of an annoying cold headwind. Not as fast as when my bars were much lower, but enough to nullify the wind, and having the comfy upright at the ends now is a good compromise. Here's a shot of the final setup regarding that: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Xdx8Xkj8ONc/VkNlLAXZjyI/AAAAAAAAFf4/n4ahRdv3RCQ/s1600/12240812_10153720383624106_1846002533406206256_o.jpg> The bars sure look way the heck up there in that shot, but they don't ride like it at all. In the hooks I really feel more like I'm on a sportier flat bar bike. Brilliantly weird geometry, these Clems. The one other thing I have to do (and warn about, I suppose) is switch out my front canti for a low profile I have arriving this evening. On the 52cm frame, the wide frog-leg cantis do clear the Surly rack just fine, but they're right smack dab in the way of hanging my panniers in either the low or high spots. D'oh! Throwing a cheap Oryx on there for now while the bike is just pulling the usual light duty. I'll see about saving up for a Paul maybe down the road, or if I'm feeling like spending way too much just for aesthetics maybe I'll buy the matching Grand Cru Zeste low profiles and just deal with having two sets of high/low profile cantis. Seriously, why doesn't VO sell those by the wheel, anyway? On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 9:45:22 AM UTC-5, Edwin W wrote: > > Here <https://www.flickr.com/photos/90785999@N06/albums/72157661094042625> > is a Flikr album of the few photos I have taken. > > Edwin > -- 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.
