Even tho RIVELO (John) doesn't have a payroll mechanic, it should still be easy to get your Rivwhatever worked on. John has an arrangement with at least two mechanics, one of them a former mechanic down here at RBW. Also, for better or worse, our bikes operate 100 percent with 40-year old technology. Cables work the brakes and derailers, the bottom brackets are simple as pie cartridge units, the cranks show their chainring bolts...there's minimal and often zero "black boxing" of the mechanisms. If by some trick the rest of us don't know about, you and your bike make it back to 1975, you can trust that your Riv bike won't befuddle any bike mechanic. Portland in 2015 probably has 300 professional good ones, and any good bike mechanic anywhere will feel at home tinkering on a Rivendell. Anyway, I'll stick to the main point here, that Rivendell bikes are mechanical time machines, so...no problem. Plus, John has 100 percent access to our mechanics and all of us here--as will anybody who buys a bike there. We won't travel to PDX to find the source of the click you hear, but you're far from alone out there! Also, for those of you in the area who haven't been by RIVELO, you should know that John is disarmingly casual but knows our bikes through and through. Everybody here misses him.
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