I have a good friend who is has qualified for RAAM (twice over actually) and is in the market for a new bike to ride coast-to-coast.
Any RAAM vets out there? He is not budget constrained... what would an ideal spec be? I'll likely be crew for at least half the ride,
so I will have to live with any bitching that comes from the bike... (he'll be taking his existing road and possibly his tri bike as backups,
but a top shelf main bike seems in order..)
Are there some fit guidelines that change when you start to look at spending 18-22 hours a day on the bike for multiple days?
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" I take my gear out of my car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of of their lives shocks me. "
(opening lines from Tim Krabbe's The Rider , 1978
Any RAAM vets out there? He is not budget constrained... what would an ideal spec be? I'll likely be crew for at least half the ride,
so I will have to live with any bitching that comes from the bike... (he'll be taking his existing road and possibly his tri bike as backups,
but a top shelf main bike seems in order..)
Are there some fit guidelines that change when you start to look at spending 18-22 hours a day on the bike for multiple days?
.
" I take my gear out of my car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of of their lives shocks me. "
(opening lines from Tim Krabbe's The Rider , 1978