It was weird taking the fenders off, Eric. I even took off the kickstand, which is a first since I bought it. I moved the kickstand to the Bombadil. It does look a little nekkid, but now when I look at it I'm reminded of Jay's Hillborne.
The trails are pretty darn bumpy and my honey B-17 is pretty broken in, so I went ahead and put a different seat and seatpost on the bike so the B-17 doesn't get tattered with the offroad abuse. I put on a fluted Campy Super Record post that I bought on the list, and an old original black Flite Titanium. Now the Hillborne really looks like a completely different bike. I went ahead and weighed it too, just for fun. 26.5lbs, rounded to the nearest half-pound on the bathroom scale. On Apr 10, 5:58 pm, EricP <ericpl...@aol.com> wrote: > That extra tire clearance is probably the only reason I sometimes > dream about an orange Hillborne to go with my green. It's a good > bike, but the Schwalbe Marathon Supreme 40s are about as wide as I'm > comfortable with right now. > > Will say I'm officially jealous of your setup. > > Still not sure I could run my Hillborne without fenders. They seem > too much a part of the bike. > > Eric Platt > St. Paul, MN > > On Apr 10, 4:56 pm, Minh <mgiangs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > man the Sam looks so different without fenders (and the clearances are > > huge!), really wish someone would put 50's on just so we know :) but i > > think it might work.... > > > On Apr 9, 9:42 pm, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > We were speculating whether a Hillborne would take Marathon Duremes in > > > a 50. That motivated me to get my Hillborne into its Spring/Summer/ > > > Fall configuration. I set it up kind of monster cross so I can work > > > out the route for what I think will work out to a ~40mile, ~80% dirt > > > commute to work. These Mythos tires run 42mm wide at the knobs. I > > > took a few photos to show the clearances. > > > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/sets/72157626464189260/-Hide > > >quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
