Or maybe the Bomba is just a 'premium Hunqa' ??? I know I often harp on how Grant characterizes the Bomba as a mountain bike, but maybe I've overlooked the true significance of the Bomba and Hunqa in mountain biking history. I love what Grant has created in the the Bomba and Hunqa; in my opinion these picked up where the earlier mountain bike designs left off, and set an altogether different (and perhaps long-lost evolutionary) course from the 'rest' of the mountain biking industry. Here's what I'm talking about: I also ride a Niner MCR fully rigid steel 29er mountain bike, set up solely for trail. I ride it virtually everywhere my friends ride on their full-suspension bikes. I never liken the Niner to any of the early (fully rigid steel) MTBs; it's an entirely different beast (which evolved along the lines of the modern hardtail, and not so much the early MTBs). Both the Bomba and the Niner are quality steel mountain bikes, but that's where the similarities end.
And while I do savor taking the Bomba offroad, when I run into technical rock gardens, large fallen logs and tight twisty turns, that's often the point when I'll naturally dismount my Bomba. Yet I wouldn't even hesitate to rip through these obstacles on the Niner... it virtually eats up this type of terrain... The Bomba and Hunqa may represent a missing link to the early StumpJumpers, Alpinas, Mongoose ATBs and (of course the Bridgestone MBs).. They've simply set a slightly different evolutionary course. BB On Friday, September 6, 2013 5:30:47 AM UTC-4, Fullylugged wrote: > > AFAIK, The RBW Atlantis is really "Atlantis 2" There was a Bridgestone > Atlantis, but that was a different bike. The Atlantis 2 comes out of the > XO-1 lineage. Bombadil is another go at a mountain bike and Hunquapillar is > an economy model Bombadil. > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamon...@mac.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Thank you, Jim. That's a great family history of the road side of the >> family. I imagine, but do not know, the Bombadil and Hunqapillar came from >> the Atlantis and perhaps go as far back as the Mountain shown in the >> poster. I'd love to know the evolution that led to the Atlantis, Bombadil, >> and Hunqapillar if anyone knows. >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> On Thursday, September 5, 2013 10:07:10 AM UTC-6, Cyclofiend Jim wrote: >>> >>> Ha! >>> >>> Indeed... the "other" is always "V-O" >>> >>> ;^) >>> >>> about.me/jimedgar >>> >>> On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:32:20 PM UTC-7, jbu...@gmail.comwrote: >>>> >>>> n.b. - when cyclofiend says VO, he means voiceover: >>>> http://www.jimedgarvoices.com/**demo/index.html<http://www.jimedgarvoices.com/demo/index.html> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
