What abt crank forward bike like RANS?

On Aug 10, 4:25 am, Tom Sherman
wrote:[i]
wrote:
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You can get a lot of torque buy leaning back in the saddle and pulling
back on the handle bars, its the equivalent to standing up in the
saddle. I bought a Crank Forward bike because I was having all kinds
of numbness issues in all the contact points one has when riding a
bike. I have a Rans Zenetk w/ Rans deep V handlebars which keeps you
in an upright position....

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooo...

RANS is always written in all capital letters.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
“Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken /
She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”

Thanks for the grammer lesson, but who cares! The discussion was
about the performance of the crank forward design, not weather the
Company writes their name in lower case or upper case letters.

wrote:[i]
On Aug 10, 4:25 am, Tom Sherman
wrote:
wrote:
...
You can get a lot of torque buy leaning back in the saddle and pulling
back on the handle bars, its the equivalent to standing up in the
saddle. I bought a Crank Forward bike because I was having all kinds
of numbness issues in all the contact points one has when riding a
bike. I have a Rans Zenetk w/ Rans deep V handlebars which keeps you
in an upright position....
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooo...

RANS is always written in all capital letters.


Thanks for the grammer lesson, but who cares!

Members of the Church of RANS.

The discussion was
about the performance of the crank forward design, not weather the
Company writes their name in lower case or upper case letters.

So sloppiness and error are a good thing?

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
“Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken /
She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”

wrote:
Age 50...... daily aches and pains

What's everyone think abt crank forward bikes like
these RANS models? Could you tour on one.... off road?

see link

http://www.ransbikes.com/Dynamik07.htm

I have a RANS Fusion.

For fire-road riding it can work, but it is definitely different.
Standing on the pedals at all is difficult, but the Dynamik would be a
bit easier in that regard because of the steeper head tube.

I would also agree on putting on "multi-position" bars... like dove or
gull bars with a clip-on aero bar. I have the normal OEM medium-rise
bars still on mine but with bar ends, but then, I never try to ride it
fast.

I've noticed online that most people who buy the Zenetics switch out the
flat bars for something else, due to lack of variation in positions with
the OEM flat bars. But I suppose you can't please everybody, so if RANS
has to stick some kind of bar in there, it might as well be a cheap one
so it's easier to toss out.

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I never heard of "touring off-road" really, so I don't know what you
mean by that.

I made a custom rear rack for mine, because with the RANS rack kit and
me being tall (and extending the seat all the way up) the seat would
have overhung about 1/3 of the rack, preventing attaching a cargo trunk.

There is a website (with forum) for these bikes, if you did not know.
http://www.crankforward.com/
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DougC wrote:

I never heard of "touring off-road" really, so I don't know what you
mean by that.

Sorry..... what I meant was can this thing be used for
touring on hard surface roads just like a reg touring
bike can?

But I also asked probably a dumb question that could it
also be used off road...meaning can it go down gravel
roads and dirt roads and such... not off road in the
sense of a mt bike.

wrote:
DougC wrote:

I never heard of "touring off-road" really, so I don't know what you
mean by that.

Sorry..... what I meant was can this thing be used for
touring on hard surface roads just like a reg touring
bike can?

But I also asked probably a dumb question that could it
also be used off road...meaning can it go down gravel
roads and dirt roads and such... not off road in the
sense of a mt bike.

The people at RANS ride their CF bikes on non-technical off-road trails
all the time. Gravel and dirt road should not be a problem with an
appropriate tire choice (JB rides such roads with 28-mm smooth tread
tires on a drop-bar road bike).

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
“Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken /
She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”