I had a Roadini, briefly, and didn’t find it a particularly inspiring bike to ride. The OS tubing is quite stout and felt like more a touring bike to me. A generic UJB (or an old Trek) will likely give a livelier ride, though you might miss the wonderful high stack of the Roadini.
Eric On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, Yankeebird <freeski...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like a Roadini, but it's going to be a while, and I'm going > through some money constraints right now, and I don't mind fixing up > something else in the interim. I have a Cheviot right now, and it's my > primary main bike for everything. I also have a Surly CC that I built up > with an Alfine IGH 8 and Albatross bars, but I keep that at Mom's so when > my bro and I visit we have a bike to bang around on to blow off steam. > > I would really like a decent smooth steel frame that will take at least a > 32-38 tire, and I can build up either with another IGH/albatross or a > cassette and drop bars depending on my whims. Something zippier than my > Cheviot but not a straight up triathlon bike. > > I'd like to get my hands on a '86 Schwinn Passage (my brother has this > bike and it's an incredible) or an early/mid 80's Trek 720. But these > things are going for PREMIUM money, almost ridiculous. I value them as > $200-300 bikes, but they are listed at $800+ and it boggles my mind. > > Any other comparable frames to the above two I mentioned that I should be > looking at? What about Motobecanes? Do they have standard sizing for > components or am I going to be banging my head against the wall finding > French sized parts? > > Biking is something I enjoy, and I can do basic bike MX and can learn the > stuff I don't know, but I am not deep in the weeds of dorkdom when it comes > to bikes. I have other much deeper passions. I probably won't build a > wheel, but I can replace a BB. I know what I like and what I want when I > see it, if I'm pointed in the correct direction by those who know. Hence > this query. > > -- > 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/a71962d4-2a50-484d-b84e- > efb9b3e92964n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a71962d4-2a50-484d-b84e-efb9b3e92964n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAHFNW5CvTzpD0j0hSMCJYJN298qMcGa%3DTy%2B%2BkKSj1xK%2Bqto8Gw%40mail.gmail.com.
