Hey Joe, My perhaps ill informed view is that once you get reasonably stiff more stiff is not noticeable, and that rivs by and large are stiffer than what the flexy frame proponents have in mind. E.g. one notable guy once told me that an AHH was not a performance bike because it had oversize tubes and GP uses thick walls. So, thought experiment, if you built an AHH design bike with stouter tubing would it really have a different feel due to the increased stiffness? I'm skeptical but too cheep to run the experiment. Would GP sell a really flexy custom? I dunno.
I may be less discerning than the average rider, but I regularly go on group rides where everybody else is on MCFRBs and I'm on a 19, 21, or 24 lb bike and I find what my numbers suggest quite plausible. On Monday, March 30, 2020 at 11:20:37 AM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: > > Ted, it's a matter of stiffness and feel, too. I believe the difference in > frames are more noticeable to the average rider on a big hill than your > numbers suggest. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8ac3098f-0652-4e90-9696-e4bb5b237e97%40googlegroups.com.
