They overlap about 80%. Is your Sam set-up primarily for touring, with racks, etc? Or is it mostly a road / trail bike? As far as touring goes, how much stuff you carry makes a difference. If you want to do 4 bag plus a rack full of gear, the Atlantis work well. It actually rides "softer" when fully loaded. It sounds like you've toured successfully with your Sam.
The new Atlantis (MIT) has such longer chainstays that it rides considerable different (actually better) than my Toyo built '03. I spent a couple of hours test riding one at RBWHQ and came away seriously impressed. It's definitely worth thinking about, esp if you'd like to have 2 bikes set up quite differently. dougP On Monday, January 7, 2019 at 1:48:56 PM UTC-8, Randall Rupp wrote: > > > For those that have ridden both the Atlantis and Hillborne, how similar > are they riding-wise? I have a lovely Hillborne in orange that I think is > great and have used on a couple week long bike tours, but have always > wondered whether the Atlantis was better for touring. Hillborne seems > pretty stout and handles well loaded up. I guess I can get bigger tires on > an Atlantis, but is that the primary difference especially now with the > made in Taiwan frames. > > Of course, now that I'm writing this I imagine this has been asked plenty > of time before, but I'll post anyway on the slim chance it hasn't. > -- 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.
