I feel like the liine up is pretty solid, and Rivendells have a good deal of overlap. If it were in my budget, I would have gotten a tandem. I would love to see a kid-specific Rivendell. I think there were the beginnings of such a project, but it quickly morphed into something else. I could be mistaken. I know there are many reasons this would not be a great idea. And my kid is starting to get into regular 26" mountain bike size (women's style, found a cool old GT mixte) so I am heading out of that demographic and getting ready to sell his fancy Islabike.
But it's kinda like one day some years ago my old racing club (about the oldest in the country) looked around and saw that there was no new blood. So they (re) started a junior team, with coaches and mentors. One of my racing buddies was the coach for a while, he loved it. It would be nice to have a bicycle option for kids that did not include suspension, aluminum, etc., but did include all the Riv values. I'm thinking tig welded in three wheel sizes: 20" (new folder standard), 24", and maybe 26", basic one color (red?). Frames or dealer builds only, so no stocking of 20" or 24" or kid sized cranks (maybe hook up with Mark at Bikesmith in some way for those). Or, as I've said before, do a collaboration like the Frank Jones. Maybe with a company like Islabike, to counter their weird foray into mini carbon racers. I know the last thing Rivendell needs is a project like this, but in a better world, this would be a no-brainer. On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 3:21:26 AM UTC-5, drew wrote: > > It’s late and I’ve been inspired by lum gim fongs Willy nilly topic > creation. I’ve owned 2 sams, a hunq, Clem and Atlantis. Down to just an > Atlantis now and pretty happy. I’ve been thinking about what kind of model > would get me to buy a new rivendell again. So I pose the same question to > you all. (Let’s eliminate the things they won’t do, like low trail and disc > brakes) > > For me, it’d be a Roadini with clearances for > 2.1 tires or a canti cheviot. > -- 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.
