Hooray for you Leah ! :-) I think a level top tube would suit you better in the long run as given a good fit, you'll be able to have a good starting point for bar height. Not too high, not too low. You're obliviously fit and flexible, so for road riding use that to your advantage, so to speak. Less air resistance, which is what you're running into, literally. From experience, sloping TT's are fine if you want to the bars quite high, but if you want them at a more saddle level or below you may not be able to go low enough. It depends on the frame of course.
A Homer before the TT's were sloped would also work as road bike in addition to the Roadeo. They were technically 1.5 degrees, not enough to care about given a proper fit. Also Ramboullett frames would work. You have such a good level of fitness and sensibilities that you'll be fine, it'll work out as it comes. On Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 3:33:50 PM UTC-4 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > I’m starting to wonder about a roadbike. But it has to be a Rivendell > roadbike because I’m loyal and all that. Anyway, I don’t know that the > Roadini really offers enough of a change for me. I have no idea what is > going on with the Gallup. Then there’s the Roadeo - that one looks great > but there’s a 2 year wait, unless I can find one used. Which would be > ideal. > > Who rides their Rivbike in club rides and what do you ride? Who has a > Roadeo that never gets ridden and wants to sell it? I don’t even know what > size I’d be but I’m an 81 PBH. Must I ride drop bars? I never have before. > I know nothing about any of this. Clearly. > > Note: I still like my raspberry Platypus for club riding but it does take > a toll on me in wind. I recently got a shorter-height, longer-reach stem > which marginally helped, but our high spring winds are taking it out of me. > I did a club ride yesterday with my women’s group and my heart rate was in > the 170s the whole 26.3 miles. It was brutal. Everyone else agreed it was a > hard ride, but I felt like it was harder on me than them, and I’m the > youngest and probably the most fit. > > Leah > -- 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/a5d0f533-090a-440d-9262-528b1fff7b6fn%40googlegroups.com.
