I enjoy your "looking for hen's teeth" quests. Is this to be another fixie? What's an AM hub?
It sounds like you want some one who is familiar with the Riv ride and is also old enough to have ridden a bunch of '70s bikes so they can recommend one that is obscure enough not to command a vintage price. My favorite older bikes are a Merckx, a 3Rensho, and a Gazelle, all of which, in my opinion, handle well and cost me less than $400 each. Of those, Gazelle is obscure enough to be relatively inexpensive for a bike made from 531. But my bikes are all late '70s or 'early '80s and have 126 spacing. Your search for a 120 makes it much more difficult, especially to find a decent one at a non-vintage price. Bertin, Gitane, RIH (another Dutch maker), might be what you're looking for. There are the Swedish-made Crescents, some of which are 531. I'm sure there a bunch of other obscure brands that I don't know about too. I'd probably look for a Brit bike, though, but finding one at a low cost from that era will be difficult. happy huntin' jim m wc, ca -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
