She hasn't ridden it yet. She has a fairly long torso and is use to being stretched out. We bought the smallest frame, one size smaller than the Riv recommended for her height but don't expect to have much seat post showing. Michael
On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 10:36:30 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Ah, the pains and travails of building a bike from non-spec, non-standard > parts. But very nice job. > > I am surprised that the C takes drop bars, with the long effective top > tube length designed for sweep back bars. How does it ride with them? > > I came across this just now when Googling Cheviot Geometry: > > https://momentummag.com/rivendell-cheviot-review/ > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 8:14 AM, Michael Hechmer <mhec...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Ever Since Pat's Betty Foy arrived here for Christmas of '14 my daughter >> has been oogling it. This year she upped the campaign by telling us that >> she was having trouble getting her leg over her Soma Double Cross with our >> grandson, Simon, on the tag along. So we put a plan together. I bought >> the frameset, along with BB, HS, & seatpost. She bought a pair of the Clem >> wheels, and Tectro brakes. Everything else was to come off of her mothers >> old Specialized Sequoia, which had nice old parts on it. >> >> The frame arrived and I popped it into my repair stand, then dug the >> sequoia and an old repair stand out of the basement. That's when Murphy >> joined the team and offered to help! First up remove the pretty Shimano >> 600 crank and put it on the Cheviut. No way it was goint to work with that >> BB, which was way too short. I figured Riv had planned for a Sugino crank, >> which is what's on my Trek, along with a BB that is too long for it. Got >> out the Trek, pulled the crank arms & BB. Installed BB in the Chevy. >> Still too short. Reassembled Trek and returned to Sequoia to take off the >> Stronglight BB. Went to pull the left side crank arm and the threads >> stripped out. I wondered how long the crank & BB had been together? I >> managed to remove the BB & arm as a single unit. I soaked the joint in >> liquid wrench and started through the parts bin, looking for an >> alternative. As luck would have it I found an old and nice Specialized >> crank, which didn't work with any modern FD, but had a near perfect mach >> for the left arm. More soaking and a half hour of gentle hammering >> released the damaged arm from the Stronglight. They look good on the >> Chevy. Next up, derailleurs. XT FD zip, zip, I'm done. Ultegra RD just >> doesn't want to go on??!! Turns out the small flap that the B screw goes >> through is bent. After much struggle I failed to straighten it and >> realized I needed to disassemble the derailleur. Couldn't figure out how >> to do that so headed off (15 miles) to the LBS and my favorite cycologist, >> Gene. He said it's easy, but best you had not tried to do it. All you >> need to do is remove this clip, but if you don't have your finger here you >> end up with lots of small parts all over the bench and no idea how to put >> it back together. Back home we moved on to the cassette. Seperated it >> from the Sequoia and realized it was a SRAM, which Pat had complained never >> shifted well. I remembered it didn't shift well when it was on my bike >> either. Two strikes, it's out. Back to the parts bin. Found, a brand new >> shimano cassette, only it was missing a cog, the 12. No problem, as I >> always buy an extra small cog with every cassette, so I had one to spare. >> Only I couldn't get all nine cogs on the hub. Tried and tried and tried. >> Would not fit. Suddenly the light went off - this is an eight speed >> cassette! I have no idea how this thing came into my house because I have >> never ridden an eight speed set up. I went directly from 7 to 9. Put on a >> chain and adjusted the deraillers, which would have been quicker if I could >> have remembered which screw was up and which down. >> >> Next came the cock pit. This was going to be easy because I had a pair >> of drop bars, which is what she wanted, already attached to the stem, with >> brake & shift levers, and HB tape all in place, and all the cable housing >> beautifully tucked under the tape. But, it was not to be. The cable >> housing were all about an inch too short. Back to LBS for new housing. >> Start over. Cut the seat post because RBW shipped the worlds longest post >> with their shortest bike. Next up reconfigure the cream long boards and >> get them on the Chevy. I have all ready written about the joy of that. >> Finally some good news. The kickstand went on easy. >> >> But, alls well that ends well. >> https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B02Ju8EH6JsYKHF >> >> Suzanne will come over this weekend for a final set-up and send off. >> >> Michael >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the > world revolves.) *Carthusian motto > > *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart > > *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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