Re: [RBW] So many Rivs on the chopping block

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 08:50:28 -0700


When Riv started, 26" for All Rounder was THE way to go. It was almost the only way to get good tires with 2" width. So like with the 26" Bridgestone XO's, I always considered the supreme All-Rounders as synonymous with 26" wheels. When Riv started getting more bikes built in the later 90's, they indicated that a large frame like a 63 cm couldn't be made to look good with 26" wheels and wouldn't do it. (The late 90's All-Rounder in large sizes were listed as for 700C wheels, with a statement nearby saying that the tire selection in this wheel size was improving. The very first Riv frame catalogs - pages of Reader #2, for example - had indicated that all AR's would be 26" and I hadn't considered that the largest would change that.) This caused a bit of a stir among us taller people, because we saw Riv as one of our large frame purveyors but in considering an All-Rounder, many of us wanted 26" wheels, because we had grown accustomed to thinking that's where the good wide tires be.

Shortly before the Atlantis, 700C x 2" options started to get better and by 2000, things were changing a lot. I got my Atlantis in 2001 with zero qualms about tire width availability. 650B was revived a few years a later.

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From: 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch
Sent: Jun 21, 2017 8:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [RBW] So many Rivs on the chopping block

Love the Allrounder!  What size frame?  Are the wheels 26"?  I don't know if I've ever read that all the Riv Allrounders were 26" but I've assumed they were.  



On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 9:06:43 AM UTC-5, Addison wrote:
I adore my Riv Allrounder and all of things I can do with it.  And Riv continues to make gorgeous bikes of course.  But I think the lack of disc brakes hurts them as far as being a practical option, at least in this area Sierras/Reno with our rocky trails.  I've done years of "underbiking"  but at this point if I'm going the places I want to go for a sub 24 hour or day trip, I want the stoppers. Curious if others are migrating in that direction...anyway, here is my riv in various forms of riding builds.  All wonderful and fun! 




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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Eric Norris <campyo...@me.com> wrote:
I still have two Rivs in my stable–I recently sold a bike that was more or less a duplicate of another that I ride more often.

I’ve also started tending toward riding my Alex Singers more often, particularly now that I have one with a little more beausage. As Grant would likely predict, having a bike that’s not quite so perfect makes me feel freer about getting it out in the real world. Ditto for my Riv Road, which has not paint other than a home-applied clear coat over bare metal.

--Eric N
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On Jun 21, 2017, at 4:32 AM, Jeff Lesperance <jeff.le...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've kept one Riv in the bike stable (my Rosco v2), but my recent sale of my Hillborne was in favor of a similar style of bike, but one that takes disc brakes, an All-City Space Horse Disc. Previously, when I wanted to add a rougher-stuff bike to my bike stable, oversize tires and, again, disc brakes were a requirement, and I added a Surly Troll and subtracted a Romulus. In both cases a Hillborne/Appaloosa and a Hunq would have worked, if disc brakes were an option.



On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Daniel Jackson <daniel.se...@gmail.com> wrote:
Why so many great Rivs for sale on the list recently? What are folks moving to this riding season and why? 

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