Originally Posted by
hermanchauw
Have you tried setting the saddle all the way forward in the Rockhopper? If not enough range of motion, you could reverse the seat post to increase the forward position.
Holy paradigm shift Batman! Adjusting the seat forward on the rails never occurred to me. Brook's Saddles have quite long seat rails, prob'ly for that very reason, setting the seat forward all the way made quite a lot of difference, thanks
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That bike is a great commuter/urban bike, tho I might have erred towards "heavy" when having the wheels assembled. The 26x2" Schwalbe Marathon Plus Tours are the toughest, most flat-resistant tiers I've found, tho again heavy. If I do tour on it I'll install a Racktime rear rack and a Bontrager rack up front as I did on my '89 Schwinn Voyageur so as to set the Ortlieb panniers lower. I will say that frame doesn't soak up the road vibration like the slender frame components on the Voyageur. The bike doesn't seem to roll as effortlessly either.
I'll put in a couple of long rides over Christmas break to compare 'em.