All good questions! I actually have some 650b wheels left over from a Sam I briefly owned and have been running those on the hunq, outfitted with compass 42mm tires. I ran smart sam's on there for a long time and still have them.
I'm looking for something lighter that climbs better than the hunq. My litmus test are a few climbs in Oakland including tunnel road. It is noticeably slower on the hunq than on my go fast road bike (Gunnar), which would be expected. However, given that the hunq was bought to be my primary mountain bike, and is no longer serving that purpose, and is in fact seeing way more road miles, my hope is that a more road oriented Rivendell would make more sense. The hunqapillar is fine as it is, and if there is not going to be noticeably faster than I may just stay with that. But my initial thought process is that an AHH is comparable in price and resale value to my hunq (while having all the fixings for racks, fenders, kick stands, etc.), and being lighter and hopefully a little faster, would be a good trade if there was one to be had. And I also have a 650b wheel set with 2 nice sets of tires that would fit it nicely. I'm also not really looking to spend any money, hence the trade aspect of it. I feel like I've struck out on finding a 52 or 54 ahh at RBW to test, maybe I need to go back and see what is there. This isn't an urgent thing and I'm happy riding the hunq and keeping it a long time. But I am very AHH curious ;) Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:58 AM, ted <ted.ke...@comcast.net> wrote: > > dstein, > > If you think the Hunqapillar and the Sam Hillborne ride the same you will > likely think the Sam and the Hilsen ride the same too. > As you pointed out Grant has said the Sam and Hilsen are functionally > interchangeable, though there are differences between them. > > I haven't ridden a Hunqapillar much, but I do have a first generation > Bombadil and an AHH. For riding mostly roads I prefer the AHH. I think they > ride differently, with the AHH being more responsive and the Bombadil being > more stable. But it's possible that in a blind (if that were possible) test > with the same components and position on each frame I wouldn't be able to > tell the difference. > > How would you like your next bike to seem different than your Hunqapillar? > What attributes would make a "better bike" seem better to you? > > I think you live in the east bay, in which case it could be well worth your > while to bop over to RBW and test ride Hunqapillar, Hillborne, Hilsen, Roadeo > back to back to .... > > Btw what tires do you have? Earlier you posted there were Smart Sams on > there, now Compass. Are your Compass tires Rat Trap Pass or a smaller size? > >> On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 5:09:20 AM UTC-8, dstein wrote: >> I actually do have compass tires on there now ;) And that is my fear. I >> felt the hunq and sam rode the same honestly and since i liked the hunq more >> i sold the sam. And I've heard the sam and ahh ride the same (grant's words). >> >>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Clayton.sf <clayt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Get some compass tires for your hunq- it will be much faster. If you want >>> really fast, look into skinny flexy tubing or some vintage 531 and compass >>> tires. The AHH likely won't be that huge of an upgrade. >>> >>> Clayton Scott >>> SF, CA >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/CQRh7rPiKSc/unsubscribe. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://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 a topic in the Google > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/CQRh7rPiKSc/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
