[RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-11 Thread Michael
> > Alba's look cool with the black grips. -- 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 gr

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-11 Thread PeterG
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Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-11 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 22:31 -0500, Alex Zeibot wrote: > Low trail fork will not transform Rivendell into a complete randonneur > bicycle. It takes more than just a fork. Plenty of Rivendells have been transformed into randonneur bicycles without any changes to the fork at all. -- You recei

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-11 Thread Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery
It takes more than just a fork to transform a Riv into a randonneur, indeed. Most importantly, it takes some kooky person to sit in the saddle and turn the cranks and follow the cue sheet faithfully for between 7 and 90 hours. Anybody who's obsessing over fork rake or any other hardware triviali

[RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread Garth
You can get as high as you like with them, using a Nitto quill adapter and a zero or greater degree threadless stem . http://www.benscycle.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=13753&zenid=490e0d7e35095acc42d0c68d3657 If you want to

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread Peter Morgano
Anyone just ride a bike today? I have the flu and would rather hear about fun stuff and not drivel like trail. On May 10, 2013 11:31 PM, "Alex Zeibot" wrote: > Low trail fork will not transform Rivendell into a complete randonneur > bicycle. It takes more than just a fork. > > > On Fri, May 10,

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread Alex Zeibot
Low trail fork will not transform Rivendell into a complete randonneur bicycle. It takes more than just a fork. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Steve Palincsar wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 19:28 -0700, VeloZen wrote: > > Uh oh ... here we go again. :) > > > > What isn't a "good" idea for s

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 19:28 -0700, VeloZen wrote: > Uh oh ... here we go again. :) > > What isn't a "good" idea for some ... perhaps many ... maybe even the > overwhelming majority of active cyclists in this world ... may just be > the only way one single individual is capable of getting out and

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread PATRICK MOORE
Who is judging? Steve just asked the question. This reaction seems a bit excessive. It's spring, fer gawd's sake, let's go and ride off our excess sensitivity. Patrick "let's all get a life" Moore who had a very nice ride on his Ram today and ***didn't even get a flat***. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread VeloZen
Uh oh ... here we go again. :) What isn't a "good" idea for some ... perhaps many ... maybe even the overwhelming majority of active cyclists in this world ... may just be the only way one single individual is capable of getting out and enjoying a ride without pain. I know people with nice b

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread PeterG
If it works...it's a good idea -- 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 ema

Re: [RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread Steve Palincsar
Whether the parts will let you achieve this position or no, has anyone asked whether it's a good idea to do so? n Fri, 2013-05-10 at 17:46 -0700, Scot Brooks wrote: > If you go with a short stem, you can get super upright. I had the > short stem/alba (actually Soma Oxford, but whatever) on my So

[RBW] Re: How upright can you get with Alba's/stem combo?

2013-05-10 Thread Scot Brooks
If you go with a short stem, you can get super upright. I had the short stem/alba (actually Soma Oxford, but whatever) on my Soma bike and it was seriously upright. I went with a longer (12cm) stem on my Riv with the Oxfords and it's a totally different feel; I can angle the bars down and lean