Ian asked about how challenging my commute is. It's 18.5 miles each way. Towards work has about 500 feet of climbing and towards home has about 1000 feet of climbing. The afternoon winds kick up somewhat and I have to punch through that on the way home. i treat the ride into work as a morning meditation. I get a cup of coffee in Berkeley and drink it while I ride. I'm not hammering. I'm wearing my work clothes. I don't know if that answers your question.
Ian followed up with a 'if you could only commute on one bike, which bike would it be?'. I'm not sure how to answer that, because it seems you are after something specific, but I'm not sure what that something is. I think of 'commuter' as a build concept. I could execute a commuter build concept around any number of my bikes. It just so happens that the Rosco Bubbe is a commuter build concept. It's got an undeniably awesome feature for anybody who rides BART, the Lift-a-tube. Other bikes feel positively primitive now that I've lived with a Liftatube. There are very VERY few bikes in the world that would not be made marginally better with the inclusion of a lift-a-tube. Only bikes that need to be feather light, and are never lifted would be worse off with a lift-a-tube. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 11:31:27 AM UTC-7, Ian A wrote: > > Bill, > > Once again a deeply inspiring and interesting post. The Rosco looks great > dressed like that. > > Out of curiousity, how challenging is the commute in terms of climbing, > winds etc.? > > And if you had to choose only one bike as your commuter, which bike would > it be? > > IanA Alberta Canada where we've already had snow and freezing temperatures > and I had to drag out the winter bike with spikes, but currently it's very > pleasant outside. I'm jealous of all you West Coasters. > > -- 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.
