There’s a reason I will be riding my, now 22 year old, Moots Psychlo-x w/ YBB in it’s 3rd DK200 this year. There is nothing that can compare to the ride quality of titanium and the smoothness of the YBB for soaking up high frequency surface chatter.
I'm trying to decide between the Moots Routt RSL, Routt 45 Ybb, and Lauf True Grit. Very tough choice. Road the Lauf (race edition) and found it incredibly fast but with a very aggressive geometry.
csacwp wrote:I'm trying to decide between the Moots Routt RSL, Routt 45 Ybb, and Lauf True Grit. Very tough choice. Road the Lauf (race edition) and found it incredibly fast but with a very aggressive geometry.
I don't know about the True Grit, but between the RSL and 45YBB there's the Routt45 non-YBB, which fits in between your two Moots suggestions. That gives you 45C clearance vs. 40C with a rigid frame. Just something to think about. I've had a Routt YBB for seven years, it's a great ride. Geometry is not lame, yet I've taken rear panniers on it many times. Mine unfortunately only has clearance for 35C tires on rear.
Sold my bike over the weekend to fund the Moots. I've narrowed it down to the Routt 45 but can't decide whether to go with the ybb or not. With ybb and the wait is 8-10+ weeks. Without and the wait is 2-3 weeks.
Normally I'd agree, but in this case the reason for the disparity is that the ybb version is a brand new model that they only just started manufacturing. The non-ybb has been in production for a few years so they have some frames ready.
