This sounds like a bad idea. These frames were designed to optimize the ride with tires in the 28-30 range with fenders. These are great riding road bikes, with these size tires. Yes they can be trail bikes and can handle bigger tires for those applications but not with fenders, and not optimally. Back when the Rambouillet was the RBW road offering the major alternative was the Atlantis and if you wanted a trail or touring bike that's what you were encouraged to buy. Rather than getting into swapping forks and brakes it would be wiser to get a used frame, or new SOMA or Surly and set it up as a trail bike.
I have a Ram and always ride it with 26-30 mm tires & Al fenders, no racks. I also have an Ebisu All Purpose which is quite similar to the AHH. I ride it with 33-38 mm tires, steel fenders and racks; but I have proven to myself that set up the same way, it rides much like the Ram. Having wider road tires is nice for dirt & rough roads but the difference is not worth mucking up something that is virtually perfect for what it was designed to be. IMHO michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/rTDfyOK0K7IJ. 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.
