I've got a few bikes that I really like, but if I had to get rid of all but one, the one would be my Richard Sachs tourer. The only one that was built for me, and the one that all the other bikes get compared to. This one corners almost as well, none of them have as supple a ride, several are faster and climb better (it's a touring bike after all), but none of them have the balance or character, the overall urge to extend yourself to the bike's limits as the Sachs. It's the bike I trust the most, the one that's saved my a** a couple times when I let my attention slip for a moment or taken it a bit too close to the edge.
Dan Artley in Parkton, MD
-----Original Message----->From: Tom Sanders >Sent: Apr 25, 2006 3:25
PM>To: classicrendezvous(AT)bikelist.org>Subject: [CR]If one had to have
only one road bike>>John Jorgenson wrote "Everyone probably has that ONE
bike, are still>searching for it, or scouting to recapture a sister of
it." and then he>wonders what others would select. Fortunately most of
us don't have tohave>only one...thank goodness bikes are relatively
inexpensive...even world>class ones.>I am fortunate enough that Nick
Zatezalo years ago sold me my all timedream>bike and I still have it.
When I die, you folks can pry my cold dead>fingers from my Richard Sachs
25 Ann. Reproduction. It just seems to me to>ride and handle better than
any other bike I have ever found and provide a>level of comfort and speed
I can achieve on no other bike. It is also eye>candy, a real consideration
for one as shallow as myself. Thank you Nick.>Now given the fact that I
have maintained that one can have more than>one...my trusty old '81 Peter
Mooney rests securely in 2nd place. Untilthe>last month this was the
least expensive bike I have bought in years.>Sometimes after a long ride
on it my face aches from smiling so much. It>doesn't get much better than
that.>These two bikes mark both the most expensive and the least expensive
of the>many bikes that have went through my hands in recent years. How
odd that>they should both be right at the top of my riding enjoyment. I
have other>bikes that I dearly love, but when a long ride beckons...these
are that two>that I will just about always reach for. Obviously, it is
not about how>much money you spend on that elusive bike of one's dreams.>To
m Sanders>Lansing, Mi