Kurt As Joe correctly pointed out, Mark Abele is a very accomplish cyclocross racer, and the Legolas is 'Marks bike'. It is still a Rivendell, no question, but It's definitely a race bike. It's got a lower BB than some cross bikes, and it has a lot more flex and springiness than some of the ultra stiff carbon race bikes. I normally use it for familiar 1.5 - 2.5 high intensity mixed terrain rides where I want to go hard. I sometimes use it on road rides. I intend to use it tomorrow morning for my 40 mile hilly road commute through the east bay hills. That's why I put the BonJon Pass Extralights on. The East Bay trails are too mucky this time of the year. I'll post a ride report late tomorrow morning. I definitely don't feel beat up after riding it.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 6:38:36 PM UTC-8, Kurt Henry wrote: > > Bill, I appreciate the offer of pictures! It you're running knobby 38s > with a little breathing room, I suspect it would clear fenders around > enough tire for me. More is better, but I don't want to sound greedy! > > Do you have any thoughts you can share on the ride? I've read the > Legolas billed as a race frame, but have a hard time imaging Grant > designing a steep angled, high bottom bracket dedicated cross frame. I've > ridden something along those lines and really didn't enjoy it. The whole > thing of being so twitchy that it adjusted course every time I took a deep > breath or pushed up my glasses made it just exhausting to ride after a > bit. If the Legolas is race-oriented by Riv standards, but still > comfortable enough to take out for a few hours without feeling beat up, > that sounds awesome. > > Kurt Henry > Lancaster, PA > > On Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 6:14:47 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >> Kurt >> >> I am holding a recent Legolas. It’s got 38 knobbies on it now with nice >> clearance but not enough to include fenders. I’m likely going to put 35 >> road tires on it tonight. I’ll take a couple clearance shots of that for >> you if I get around to it. >> >> Bill Lindsay >> The Little Hill, Ca >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1920f63b-976d-402b-a5da-6ddd248b00ef%40googlegroups.com.
