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datakoll
Guest
"A touring bike... is a bike with racks. There is a geometry
difference
with say a road or tri bike, but it's not that great really."
the industry is recovering from the Armstrong Era where all bikes were
Tour racers or worse" no gap between seat tube and rear tire, forks
pointed straight into the amacite. Very responsive, nervous geometry.
Darty. Darty over varying road surfaces all day with wind blowing you
right and left ad nauseum and ura gonna be one tired dude.
Touring geometry, and NOT 27" sport-touring geometery, delivers a
platform on which the rider pedals power straight ahead. Turning is
incidental. Which isnot to say turning response is poor like itsa
bicycle not an Eldorado convertible. turning response is good but
itsnot a GTour racer in the hands of a real racer type.
This is relative to the Commuter's Dilemma: do I ride an MTB or a
sports tourer with drop bars?
All my commuting is done down long straights not thru the woods and
across the lawns to wherever so the sports-tourer is ace here.
The sports tourer or whatchucallur "normal" geometry until the NUT
DEPT gets to messing around with it, is a suitable compromise between
Tour racer and touring bike made easier on the touring nerves with a
big fat round Conti TT carcass or as fat and round as can be fit
between the old ten speed chainstays.
difference
with say a road or tri bike, but it's not that great really."
the industry is recovering from the Armstrong Era where all bikes were
Tour racers or worse" no gap between seat tube and rear tire, forks
pointed straight into the amacite. Very responsive, nervous geometry.
Darty. Darty over varying road surfaces all day with wind blowing you
right and left ad nauseum and ura gonna be one tired dude.
Touring geometry, and NOT 27" sport-touring geometery, delivers a
platform on which the rider pedals power straight ahead. Turning is
incidental. Which isnot to say turning response is poor like itsa
bicycle not an Eldorado convertible. turning response is good but
itsnot a GTour racer in the hands of a real racer type.
This is relative to the Commuter's Dilemma: do I ride an MTB or a
sports tourer with drop bars?
All my commuting is done down long straights not thru the woods and
across the lawns to wherever so the sports-tourer is ace here.
The sports tourer or whatchucallur "normal" geometry until the NUT
DEPT gets to messing around with it, is a suitable compromise between
Tour racer and touring bike made easier on the touring nerves with a
big fat round Conti TT carcass or as fat and round as can be fit
between the old ten speed chainstays.