A new member of my bike stable

[William]

It's not a Rivendell, but it might be of interest to several of you.  I've built up a Rawland rSogn for myself to beef up my 650B bike stable.  It takes knobbies like my Bombadil, but is a compact double and is lighter.  It takes my beloved Nitto Mini front rack and the awesome Platrack (Rivendell content!) for S24Os.  It might become my commute bike, it might become my mixed-terrain brevet bike.  It will allow me to explore 'this low-trail thing' for myself.  There's so much talk that seems like hyperbole to me, that I just had to try for myself.  I finished it late last night and only rode it around the block a few times. So far it feels like a really nice 650B bike, but no night and day strangeness vs. my Hilsen.  Time will tell.  Copious pictures of the build:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/6442282159/in/set-72157628094782662/

[Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery]

We sold these a couple years ago. I don't recall that they're low trail - I never took measurements, but I always assumed that they followed design elements of old-school ATBs (very high trail).

[Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery]

Nevermind, I just looked at the Rawland website, with 73d HT and 63 mm fork offset, I guess they would be fairly low in the trail department. Huh.

[Justin August]

That's a new thing since the redesign.

[Ray Shine]

I have one of those, too! A red one. I bought it from a list member last December.  Neat bike.  Maybe I'll get a few pix.

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From: William <tape...@gmail.com>
To: rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Fri, December 2, 2011 10:01:18 AM
Subject: [RBW] A new member of my bike stable

It's not a Rivendell, but it might be of interest to several of you.  I've built up a Rawland rSogn for myself to beef up my 650B bike stable.  It takes knobbies like my Bombadil, but is a compact double and is lighter.  It takes my beloved Nitto Mini front rack and the awesome Platrack (Rivendell content!) for S24Os.  It might become my commute bike, it might become my mixed-terrain brevet bike.  It will allow me to explore 'this low-trail thing' for myself.  There's so much talk that seems like hyperbole to me, that I just had to try for myself.  I finished it late last night and only rode it around the block a few times. So far it feels like a really nice 650B bike, but no night and day strangeness vs. my Hilsen.  Time will tell.  Copious pictures of the build:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/6442282159/in/set-72157628094782662/

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