Laura, regarding susie v vintage mtb: I posted these somewhere about a year ago in response to somebody's questions, but they might be appropriate again. Here are shots comparing my susie to one of my old NORBA era bikes. While suited for the same terrain, they are remarkably different. You can almost feel the difference just looking. Your '89 model is probably a bit less like a road bike in handling because that was the cusp of when mtbs went all-in on the twitchy race geometry, but it'll still be more similar to this MB-1 than the Susie. I still have several old 26" mtbs, that I kept riding but, at some point around the mid 2010s after getting used to longer and slacker bikes, it became difficult for me to think of them as anything other than funny looking but really good road bikes.
There's also this hillibike introductory talk from Grant where, about 1/2 hour in, he mentions that the fillet brazing was selected in large part just to distinguish it from a Clem and make it more premium, and that they'd otherwise be too similar. That sort of contradicts what I said above about them feeling so different - so it's possible that my experience (and high center of gravity that is my chief complaint) is altered by my ginormous 2 8 tires and by still having bars with too much rise, making me sit too upright. https://youtu.be/diTTqXluBEw Sorry to continue muddling the decision process. Now that I've chimed in with advice, I feel somehow obligated to be as thorough as possible lest I steer you wrong. -- 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/fc7e14bc-81bd-4e8a-b7d6-0f3c5e624c5cn%40googlegroups.com.
