Hi, all, A side note, and unfortunately a fair amount of thread drift, but after a decade of tinkering around with my bike fit and a pile of different bikes, I had my René Herse built back in 2008/9. Mike Kone started with a blank sheet of paper, and he and I worked from various directions (historical; personal history and experience; uses for the bike; aesthetics) to find the very best solution for me (and this work eventually influenced some of his commercial machines, though those are very much his bikes). Its fit parameters turned out identical to... the 56 Heron Road (the front end is a little different to accommodate a dedicated front loading geometry) or the 55 Heron Touring... I have a 55 Heron Touring (on permanent loan to my brother), and it fit beautifully with a long-ish stem. These really are undersung, special machines, and they get a lot just right.
If I hadn't gotten bit fairly hard by the rando-bug and found integrated bikes particularly convivial for that purpose, I'd probably have hunted down a Heron Road (in Silver, so that I could differentiate between my machines), and called off the search for marginal improvements. I ended up with a few machines that fit my use-cases better than the Herons did (and I turn out to really love a lighter tube spec than they offer), but that doesn't take away their versatility, durability, and excellent low-key road manners. They're great bikes, and only one of my machines wins out over these "blue collar" machines aesthetically. Best Regards, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 11:26:30 AM UTC-7, Lungimsam wrote: > > > >> > -- 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.
