Calfee can provide such a bike as well. Double the price? Maybe, maybe not. I have owned a Rivendell Road and still own a Calfee Tetra. A Calfee Tetra Pro frame with fork runs $3670 - $3895, though options can push that higher. Certainly not double the price of a custom Riv ($3500), not quite double the price of a Roadeo ($2200). Both are hand built frames. The Riv is prettier, the Calfee is lighter. Both handle well. The Calfee is, dare I say it, faster in a sprint or up a hill. Neither one ever let me down. Either one could be repaired should it be damaged, but I suspect fixing the steel bike would be more expensive (the Calfee has no paint, so no repaint needed after mending). Different horses for different courses. There's room for both in the world.
Now I'll put on my nomex and fix a bowl of popcorn. Bill On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 4:23:36 PM UTC-8, Scott G. wrote: > > Call Nick Crumpton, say you want a lifetime road bike that will fit 33mm > tires. > I think you'll be very pleased with your carbon bike. > > Downside of carbon is that costs near double a same quality steel bike. > > Steel vs. Carbon, is the cycling nutters version of the Arian heresy. > > > -- 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.
