2.8s is plenty wide, for sure. I already ride a rigid mtb and the widest tire I use on it is a 2.4...the rear is a 2.2. It's a perfect combination for my local trails and don't really think wider would add much. I love the fact it will be threadless and 73mm bb, which makes it compatible with modern cranks and stems. (I've also experienced the quill stem slips while mtb'ing, so I'm really excited that it will be threadless).
I just now got back from a ride on one of my local mtb trails that has a lot of turns, decent amount of roots, some berms, pump-track like straights, lots of smiles, and not too many steep climbs and was thinking about how I could totally make a Riv mountain bike work well on the trail. I've decided I'm throwing my Santa Cruz up for sale partially because it is totally overkill for most of the riding I do and partially because I'm about 95% that I'm going to get this Riv mtb and the proceeds should fund a large portion of it. I've been saying for years I've wanted to do a Riv mountain mixte as a custom but never could get around to doing it and now it seems like y'all are going to be building something very similar to what I visualize in my future-bike-purchase area of my brain. Cool. On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 12:40:57 PM UTC-5, Grant @ Rivendell wrote: > > OK...I know there's no killing a thread, at least not without > repercussions, but I'm not going to fee it anymore. At its best, developing > a bike is fun, and this bike is pure that for me and the others here. It > will NOT meet expectations, it'll barely miss the mark for most people > reading this, there WILL be groans of "if only they'd one ONE thing > differently...!" Nobody is as independent as they'd like to be, or as > people think they are, and I'm on top of that list. My influences are > different, and although I don't FEEL old (at 64), having been doing bikes > for so long, and at Rivendell so long, has made me more stubborn than wise. > I don't want to build up great anticipation and enthusiam for a "secret" > bike, and yet I am so jazzed about it that I can't keep my trap fully shut. > That feels shitty and I wish I could undo, but there's no undoing. > I appreciate, and I can see straight that I and we-all-at RIV are lucky to > have such a great online group of supporters and cheer-squads. It's a big > positive in my life aside from any commercial value that may come from it. > The only thing is, right now I'm thinking I've screwed up and created a > weird hubub about a super simple bike. Here's how it'll be, and these are > the only details I'm going to reveal, but as you'll see, they're not barely > anything: > > fits to 2.8. NOT three. That's not an oversight, it's be design > canti-posts for, presumably, V-brakes. no disc mount. I briefly considered > it, I was willing to bend there, but the internal opinion was NO, and I'm > so glad. > great standover, but not a mixte. there's only one way to get that, so any > speculation as to how will be correct. > 135 spacing > Seat lug, but fillet and/or tig elsewhere. > HHH-type fork > Long chainstays > Long wheelbase > The Best Model Name of All Time for Any Commercial Product > Two to four colors, three of which will be almost identical. > Not a copy of anybody else's bike (to my knowledge) > The coolest name > Fun decaliteureaux! And expensive ones. About three dollars more per bike > per set, after the exhorbitant set-up fee. > No, they're not holograms. Really? U-thot-dat? > You already know 73BB and OS threadless, and the reasons > The name will scare people off. No, it's not a political or religious > name, although I have to admit I'd be strongly inclined to vote for any > candidate with this name, just hoping he or she was left-leaning. > > It will be all the mountain bike a non-racer needs for any terrain in the > world. You might have to walk a few things, but it'll glide over most...at > least, that's what I suspect, based on my experience with other bikes that > kind of do, too. But we all have different interpretations of "glide." > It'll be a nicely designed set of stairs, with steps just so, as opposed to > an elevator or even an escalator. > > It will be, overall, like a single version of the HHH, but with some > costlier details that don't make it better. > > G > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Belopsky <belopol...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> If this is a mountain bike then what are all the other mountain bi... >> >> OK I give up. Rivendell will Rivendell. Lets make more bikes that are >> already bikes we have. 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