Gorgeous bike. Tough but cuddly. That is a drawback of R559/Silvers; they intrude upon fender space and push the front tip downwards into the tire. Paul Racers fixed that for me (any centerpull would work).
Mark's modification is pretty slick. I've considered splitting the rear fender on the 80s Raleigh I rebuilt for my girlfriend's father. The brake bridge pushes the fender close to the 32 mm Paselas; it works but the arc is ugly. I hadn't considered using a rack to anchor the fender, nice job! On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:54:49 AM UTC-6, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > I felt the same way about black Rivs. It was a black-n-cream Roadeo that > started to change my mind, in a 'peeking thru the knothole' years back. > > That fender slice job is surgical. Wow. 80% of people who look at those > photos won't even see the bi-section. Rock and Roads plus fenders! > > On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 10:46:56 PM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> I never thought black would be a great color on a Riv, but boy was I >> wrong (a while back I saw a black Hunq or Bombadil here which started to >> change my mind). This bike is *beautiful.* Grant says it may be an >> option on some models later..I'd love to see it happen. Also, check out the >> slick fender-modifyin' on the front. >> >> http://rivbike.tumblr.com/ >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
