Excellent! There is a wondrous beauty to simplicity, and your Sam will be an excellent teacher! You can take it on 80% of what I take my Hunqapillar on (based on I can take my Quickbeam on 70%). What would I avoid? Loaded touring on technical single track.
My QB came with JB (not sure which color). They are great tires but not the plush, smooth ride of the Compass. If you find yourself wishing the ride was smoother, simple may mean Compass. Grin. With abandon, Patrick On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 6:04:55 PM UTC-6, Broccoli Cog wrote: > > Thank you Patrick. I always appreciate your comments and have visited your > blog quite a few times when i was deciding on a Rivendell. I have been > really pining for a Hunqapillar especially after seeing yours and the > places you have gone as evidenced by your photos. That said I have been on > a quest to simplify my cycling life and ended up selling three bikes in the > last 8 months. I am learning to live with my Sam and I enjoy trying > different set ups. That said I am being mindful to not fall into the trap > that I was in before always obsessing and buying the latest and greatest. I > passed on the Barlow Pass tires as least for now. I am going to see how the > bike rides with the Jack Browns because there is nothing like seeing > something with ones own eyes. The Compass tires will have to wait and I am > just fine with that. > > On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 7:47:49 PM UTC-4, Deacon Patrick wrote: >> >> For your 5% non-paved, my Barlow Pass on my Quickbeam serve me >> wonderfully on the 60% dirt and single track I ride with them, and it's not >> just easy pastoral paths they're on. Some of these pictures are from before >> I was enlightened to Barlow Pass tires, but they all show conditons and >> trails and roads I ride often with them in the years since I got them. >> http://thegrid.ai/withabandon/quickbeam-sightings >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 5:17:00 PM UTC-6, Broccoli Cog wrote: >>> >>> I have been fusing with different tires on my Sam every since I >>> purchased it late last summer. I thought I wanted to go as wide as possible >>> and have the ability to ride on multi surfaces. The reality is that 95% of >>> my riding time on the Sam is on the road. I also have P45 fenders mounted >>> which left very little clearance for the 40 mm tires. Some of you may >>> recall me wrestling with the fenders. I decided to try riding the bike with >>> 33mm tires on it. I had a pair of Clement LAS file treads in my basement so >>> I decided to give them a try. Although not an absolute, in my opinion a >>> 33mm tire or something in that range seems to be the sweet spot for the >>> Sam. When I rode it this morning it was noticeably more nimble. Another big >>> plus for me is that they easily cleared the fenders. I had been thinking >>> about buying a set of Compass Barlow Pass tires but my experience with the >>> 33's had be second guessing. Since the Compass tires have yet to arrive on >>> our shores I decided to look elsewhere. I was able to find a guy on another >>> forum selling a set of Jack Brown Blue's that he mounted but never ending >>> up riding. I picked them up for a good price so I am pretty excited to try >>> them. I'll report back once I have spent some time riding on them. >>> >>> Tim >>> >> -- 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.
