Re: Inexpensive bike for both touring and off road

On Mar 2, 5:33 pm, SMS <scharf.ste...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nick L Plate wrote:
On 1 Mar, 19:06, jim beam <retard-t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

eh?  what are those "obvious reasons"?

goading you.
TJ

LOL, no that's not one of the reasons, but I suppose that it's a side
benefit!

The cro-mo forks are more shock absorbent and less susceptible to
catastrophic failure due to fatigue. Even Cannondale uses a chromoly
fork on their aluminum touring bicycle, as does Koga-Miyata and REI
(Safari). Perhaps there is a touring bicycle somewhere that uses an
aluminum fork, but I doubt it. It'd be a good reason to avoid that bicycle.

Another reason they don't use them is because in order to make an
aluminum fork strong enough and rugged enough for a touring bicycle it'd
have to use very large diameter tubing, which would make it difficult to
mount certain kinds of low rider racks and other fork mounted accessories..

One other reason that steel is preferred for touring frames is the
availability of S&S Torque couplers for steel frames. This is a very
popular, though costly retrofit for touring bicycles. Personally I'd opt
for a the Dahon Tournado for a new touring bike if I wanted one that
could be disassembled, rather than S&S couplers. I had to laugh at the
description for the Tournado on the Dahon web site where they tout
"Grant Petersen designed forged, dual-pivot, long-reach brakes."

I remember the old Cannondale aluminum tandem which had to use such huge
diameter tubing to compensate that the joke was that they could put
access panels on the tubes so riders could use the interior for storage.

The old Cannondale road tandem is far stiffer and more responsive than
any steel tandem I have ever ridden. When my wife and I were both
racing, we could motor pace the team on the flats and drag race up
hill. Riding a Santana, for example, was like driving a ladder truck
-- and the Cannondale had more room for both riders. The problem with
the old Cannondale tandem is that it was spec'd with Scott SE brakes
and no discs or drums. The newer tandem comes with discs. I am either
going to retro fit with a disc or swap for a new frame so I can go on
rides with my son now that he is huge (13 years old and 6'2" -- heluva
skier). -- Jay Beattie.


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