On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 12:16:47 PM UTC-7, Jay Connolly wrote: > > I was intrigued by this number, as well. I heard an interview with Grant > somewhere in which he expressed reluctance to excite the hostile, loveless > bike-frame geometers of the interwebs, and I don't blame him. I've owned 15 > or more steel bikes in the last 20 years, and only on the Rivs have I been > able, effortlessly, to ride no hands. I take that as a sign of balance and > stability in the bike. I could do it briefly on various other frames, but > nothing like the Rivs. Maybe it's meaningless, but I find it both useful > and pleasant on long rides.
That's interesting. Is riding no handed "the test" to show that a bike is balanced and stabled? I bought all of my bikes used and have been able to ride no handed on each of them - 90s Calfee tetra, 90s Litespeed Classic and my newest bike - 2013 Trek Madone. I run 700x25 tires@80psi on all of them. The Trek has the shortest wheelbase and it took some time to get use to the handling as it is quicker than the other two bikes. Otherwise, it is fine. Good to know that my bikes are all balance and stable! Good Luck! -- 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.
