Ya my other 2 are a 68 cm Road Standard or Custom from the 90s, converted to 650B and a 68cm Redwood from the 04-06 range, both acquired used. This is my first new Rivendell. I'm kind of geeking out about it, even though it's not technically as nice as the others, there's something to be said about being the first and only owner. ;)
Of course, I am already thinking about mods, and I haven't even gotten the bike yet. The fenders are in the box. I'm looking at tires in the 40-50mm range. Besides carrying my toddler around, I have a mixed terrain 200K in mind for this bike that my usual brevet bike (the Road Standard/Custom) is not well suited to. This particular ride has about about a 6 mile stretch of soft sand followed by hard rocks right before the turnaround, then you get to go through it again the other direction. I can only fit 38mm tires, tops, on the RoadStd/Custom. I tried it once and there was a lot of slideouts on the sandy section, it was definitely touch and go with 38mm slicks. That left me fairly disappointed because other than that one rough section, it's one of the nicest rides around this area. I'm thinking maybe something like this would work well, or even the stock tires. http://www.wtb.com/products/riddler-45c I need something that can get through the sand more confidently and not get cut on the rocks but that won't be too much of a slog on pavement. of course being an upright bar bike with largest gear of 38x12(?) it will be a leisurely ride but one has 13.5 hours to finish a 200K. All you need is RFD, that being, Relentless Forward Direction... On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Wally Estrella <wallyestre...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are most welcome! > > NICE! Congrats! I can relish that new bike. Now can you ketchup? ;) > > I like big bikes! I push a 64 Atlantis and 64 Quickbeam. > > > > > > On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 2:28:45 PM UTC-4, Jim Bronson wrote: >> >> Thanks. >> >> Clem Smith Jr H Frame 65cm Mustard. >> >> https://www.rivbike.com/collections/web-special-framesets- >> and-bicycles/products/clem-smith-jr-h-style-complete >> >> Resistance became futile when they dropped the price $200. >> >> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Wally Estrella <wallye...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Oh and most importantly....what's the new bike? >>> >>>> >>>>> -- >>> 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. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> signature goes here >> > -- > 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. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- 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.
