Originally Posted by
Abu Mahendra
A second person telling you straight up long-cage is a no-go on 355. Long-cage only begins to have sufficient ground clearance on 451.
I hear you. Yet I also hear Riese & Müller, the people who designed and developed the bike, say the long cage is fine (implicitly, or they wouldn't have sold it like that). So I'm not decided yet. Whichever way I go, I'd have to build a new rear wheel. Which means I should buy the Touring with the long cage, just because it's slightly cheaper than the City model. There are hardly any differences apart from the rear hub/gearing and tyres.