Hey aeroperf, this is my third time doing the trip on the Hillborne and it does just beautifully well. It's up to carrying four panniers and the front basket w/Sugarloaf bag, tent on the rear rack top, as you can see from the photos. It's pretty stable and I ride in comfort thanks to the Moustache bars and upright Nitto mountain stem. I'm running the old Vittoria Randonneur / Voyager Hypers - very nice tires which I think are discontinued now. I like to tour with fenders, so I'm using the 35mm version, but would run 38mm's without fenders. As to the East-to-West version of the GAPCO, we liked it fine. The only drawback is the 3-hour climb out of Cumberland, Maryland up to the Eastern Continental Divide. (As opposed to a rapid and fun decent going in the other direction.) For those who have not experienced it, The Great Allegheny Passage starts in Pittsburgh, PA and ends in Cumberland, MD and the C&O Towpath Nat'l Park picks up all the way into Washington D.C. We did about 50 miles a day for a total of 350 miles, almost all off-road except our start riding from (Amtrak) Union Station in DC to get to Milepost Zero on the C&O and the arrival in Pittsburgh to reach our nearby hotel. (We reserved a mid-sized SUV for our return to Richmond, Va., which you can see in the last few images.)
On Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 6:30:39 PM UTC-4 aeroperf wrote: > Sorry, I see that it is the Great Allegheny Passage. I should have read > more closely. > Thanks for your post! > > -- 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/8b842e00-7ef3-4fdc-b451-b7c24c3159b5n%40googlegroups.com.
