Comments on two prior posts. Yes Rene, I've enjoyed it also. I drooled over Rivendells when I first saw a Romulus ad. The first production bike that would fit me "off the rack" though was a smaller Rambouillet, so I got one at the end of 2006. 10,000 miles later, I still love it. Later, I started to read Jan's observations and bought his tires for my 2d bike, a Saluki. They continue to ride well. The next bike was more Jan-ish I think, a late 70s or early 80s UJB crit racer that a prior owner had converted to 650B. It's Riv-sih nod is M-bars on a high Nitto Dynamic stem. Higher BB and lower trail, it's a great bike for shorter, spirited rides. It can't touch the Ram or Saluki for all day comfort though. The Saluki, with lower trail than the Ram, handles a small front load well. I did not like the Ram with a load on the Mark's rack I tried, and then sold. With long chain stays, both bike do rear weight fine.
Steve: The Ram has two wheel sets. One has 28mm Conti Gatorskins and the other 37mm Panaracer Paselas. Changing between them gives no noticeable steering feel change to me. The 28s are faster by 1 - 2 mph on avg. I've told a co worker I'd bring fatter tires to work next week so we can do some fire road rides. Which bike/tires to bring? :) A delicious quandary. (Ram with Paselas, Saluki with Oursons, Crit bike with pari motos?) On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:09 PM, René Sterental <orthie...@gmail.com> wrote: > What a great discussion > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > >> >> Tire width has a small inpact on geometric trail. Tire width has a >> large impact on pneumatic trail. The two combine to produce overall >> trail. When you widen the tires and increase pneumatic trail, you need >> to reduce geometric trail, or else you end up with excessive trail and >> the bike feel sluggish. When you narrow the tires you need to increase >> the geometric trail, or you may end up with insufficient stability. >> >> >> -- >> 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
