I rode my Ram across country on a very light (credit card) trip and faced all kinds of winds including the storms prior to afternoon tornadoes in Kansas. Loaded or unloaded stability comes from the design and intended use of a bike. If one is intended for touring it will be fine unless foolishly loaded to the opposite.
My colleagues were on Serottas, customers from the same shop where their sage was of a different perspective than Grant. The outcome was them pushing their DA racing triple bikes up the steeps in Appalachia, replacing a saddle that felt like a dull axe in Illinois, replacing a dead brifter in Kansas and generally suffering a posture that was best inflicted for three to five hour events, not ten or twelve hours on the pedals. They were much more precarious in wind, much more afraid down hills and through turns and mortally petrified by the possibility of rolling off the edge of the pavement at speed due to close passing traffic. Their trip was a different one than mine, I don't know if the husband and wife really even ride at all now. Might I add that I was comfortable, capably geared, robust of hardware, confident in fast descents, curves and the slowest steepest of climbs. I performed all the bodges keep the others going; that failed brifter while on the frontier deserves a special place in Hell. The Suntour downtube shifter set I carried from Virginia was worth their weight in gold as were my much scoffed-at fenders (my drivetrain was cleaner and suffered the least wear and need for chain replacement of the group). The right tool for the job is such an important and valuable choice! ANDY Pittsburgh > Which raises the question of someone taking a lightweight Titanium > touring bike cross country. -- 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.
