I owned a first edition Sam for a year or so and, if it had accepted fatter tires I might still have it; it was, or would have been, a very nice all rounder; the early ones were limited to -- Bill may and will correct me -- about 38 mm wide, IIRC, and there weren't (IIRC) any or many nice rolling 38s on the market circa 2010-2011; I used Jack Brown Greens. I found the tt too long, but in retrospect, d'oh!, I could have -- you know -- bought a shorter stem (bar height is not for me a variable).
But I sort of kind of agree that if someone held a gun to my head and said, "One bike. Choose." I'd be very tempted to pick either the Matthews 1:1 or the Matthews 2:1 (2X10 29er road bike for dirt and 1X3/1X1 26er road bike for road) with 61 and 41 mm tires respectively. OTOH, I keep coming back to home base: the 1999 Joe Starck stripped down fixed gear, which is among many very pleasant bikes still the most pleasant, even if it gets the fewest miles. On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 3:05 PM Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jason asked about the mileage on my Hillborne > > I've only been logging mileage on Strava since 2014, and only got really > obsessive about logging every single ride since 2017. I have a total of > ~19,000 miles on Strava, spread over a total of 22 bikes. The Hillborne > has the most documented Strava mileage at 1760. I've got 10 different > bikes over 1000 miles on Strava. > > Pre-Strava, before I was logging miles at all, perhaps I rode the > Hillborne another 1500 miles when it was part of a smaller stable. So > maybe 3000 miles total on this bike. > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > > On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 11:08:13 AM UTC-7 Jason Fuller wrote: > >> Very nice Bill, cheers for the story and wow at 16 bikes - it is >> heartening to read that even with that collection it's the Hillborne that >> would outlast them all - I feel the same about mine, though I've only had >> it two years! Any idea as to what its mileage would be? It does sound >> like the perfect situation, having it at the office - it's kind of like you >> do just have one bike when you're there, and supports your claim that it >> would be The One. >> >> I wonder how many bikes I'd have if space wasn't such a restriction for >> me... >> >> On Tuesday, 18 May 2021 at 10:11:01 UTC-7 Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >>> I've admittedly got a huge stable of bikes. It has "swole" to fully 16 >>> bikes at the moment. I'm really proud of the fact that all of them are >>> dialed and that I ride them all. As a result, even though I put down a >>> decent amount of mileage, none of my bikes has been ridden an epic amount. >>> >>> The bike I've owned the longest and ridden the most is my 56cm Rivendell >>> Sam Hillborne. I bought it initially in December of 2009. My work >>> situation recently changed and has me travelling to Wayne County Michigan >>> once a month, for at least a week at a time. As an investment in my own >>> quality of life away from home, I shipped out my Hillborne, which now lives >>> in my office. At first it seemed like exile, but now I realize it's a >>> position of honor. Here on the west edge of the eastern time zone, it >>> stays light until 9PM or later, so there's a ton of time to get riding in, >>> and when the choices are watching TV in a hotel room or going on a ride, >>> it's been quite easy to put quite a few miles in. When you have only one >>> bike, the choice is "ride or don't ride". There's no fretting over >>> wear-leveling the whole stable. Over this past weekend I made a longer >>> trek out into Washtenaw County to visit Ann Arbor. It's shocking how >>> quickly the miles peel away when there are no hills to speak of. >>> >>> My Sam Hillborne is freaking perfect, and there is no question in my >>> mind that if I had to downsize from 16 bikes to 1, the Hillborne would be >>> the one I'd keep. Here's a few shots of my endeavors to increase my >>> footprint in Wayne County. >>> >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51184956010 >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51183817561 >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51183880066 >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51183881196 >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/51184958840 >>> >>> Bill Lindsay >>> El Cerrito, CA (but sometimes Livonia, MI) >>> >> -- > 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/c59efae8-4c91-4a7f-8af1-6f4ad2ba3726n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c59efae8-4c91-4a7f-8af1-6f4ad2ba3726n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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/CALuTfgs1HyKuZ12wQmtecGUDbvjBjmvKA2-j-JETfpkR9zCz%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com.
