As others mentioned, get both. Currently I have a Ritchey Outback that is setup very sportily (narrow drops, 40mm tires, 450mm chainstays) and a Joe Appaloosa that is slowly becoming more bikepacking-friendly and trail oriented (wide drops, 50mm knobby tires, dynamo) after serving time as my road rambler (I still like wide drops over uprights, or I should say my 30 yr old body is OK with it for now).
My only point to add is that its a lot easier to run a smaller tire on a frame with big clearances than a bigger tire on a frame with tighter clearances, especially when the BB drop is the same. If you want to experiment in more dirt road/off road riding, the Joe would be your ticket. Collin, cooler than PDX, in Sacramento On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 2:30:58 PM UTC-7 Damien wrote: > So here's the situation. I've got a super hot lead on an orange 51 > Appaloosa, but I'm already deep in it with a sage 51 canti Sam. Initially, > when I was looking at these bikes, I was torn between the two. I ultimately > leaned Sam because at the time I liked the colour and it was more > available. Well, things change I guess! I'm more seriously entertaining a > move to the Appaloosa because: > > - Sweet long chainstays > - Can carry more (?? Is this true??) > - Will likely work better for me with upright bars (Sam felt too > cramped for me with Albas) > - Better tire clearance for fattish knubblies or fatter tires + > fenderage > > What I would love to do here is tap the forum's collective wisdom to see > if the grass is really greener. Has anyone made the move from Sam to > Appaloosa, or vice versa? What were your feelings? What did you miss on the > old bike when you made the move? What did you love about the new bike that > the old bike couldn't live up to? > > I'm approaching this a bit more cautiously since I already regret selling > another Riv I owned (Roadini - my regret is well documented, I believe). > That said, I imagine I'll need to act fast to get the bike before someone > snags it. In a perfect world I'd keep both, but we all know the world isn't > perfect, and I do have to live within the very real constraints imposed > upon me by my lovely partner who for some reason isn't cool with me having > umpteen bikes. > > Anyways, enough of my incessant rambling. Thank you for reading and > helping to encourage my hobby of buying bikes then selling then replacing > then modifying then selling then replacing then buying then crying then > selling then complaining then... (and so on and so forth). > -- 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/6964feef-e781-4fc4-83fb-0629e933f754n%40googlegroups.com.
