No, Mas, I don’t agree - I can’t see myself selling this bike. Well, if they came out with a Susie Clem then MAYBE.
The bike isn’t THAT heavy. I love the bike, actually. It’s the most comfortable bike I’ve ever ridden. It just needs to lose a few pounds, and I think with its new wheels, it will. I *can* manage it at its current weight, but I like knowing I don’t have to. I’m making a great bike greater. There are so many people who have fallen in love with the Clem L - you can’t find them for sale on the used market and Riv sells out of them in their pre-orders. Velouria (formerly of Lovely Bicycle, who has resurrected her blog under a new name) recently said she exclusively rode her black Clementine through pregnancy. I think those things speak volumes about these bikes. Also, I welcome the extra strength I’m developing. On my new Top Secret Trail there is a section where I have to cross a busy road and get across a median filled with large rocks. I have to lift my entire bike and RUN across that road, up over the median, and continue running with it over the other lane and then set it on top of the curb where my path restarts. It’s good for me! Is the Clem L long and is it stout - yes and yes. But I can work with these qualities because I love so many other attributes the bike offers. I don’t want people to think of the Clem L as a dead weight, it really isn’t. It’s lively in its own way. Fits like a comfortable pair of jeans. Is pleasing to my eye - IT’S SPARKLY BLUE, FOR PETE’S SAKE. Leah Sent from my iPad > On Apr 12, 2020, at 9:39 AM, masmojo <masm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > It's always good to make the bike as lite as possible, but as others have > pointed out the Clem is a Big, Heavy, Cushy bike; that's sort of it's > defining characteristic. > > I applaud your efforts, but it's a bit like buying a chunk of lead & > complaining that it weighs too much. > > Now that you are looking at weight; I'm afraid the ultimate conclusions will > be you need a lighter bike. ;-O > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/5DfZJEj-hqw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/5be4d1e5-0c0a-4f17-9869-0dc8b563c800%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/502E859E-1B2E-4254-A729-E59C46D4356C%40gmail.com.
