There are different levels of finish for fillet brazing. I understand the Lyon/Norther bikes are mostly Jeff just laying in the brass, not much filing. I have an old Viscount where they obviously left it completely raw (and some pinholes, boo.) I would imagine the Hilli-builder would do some cleaning up and a bit of finishing, but perhaps not to the level of a $3,000 custom bicycle.
But yeah, fillet brazing bicycles by hand takes time. And no doubt the builder Riv is using is good. On Friday, June 21, 2019 at 10:51:53 AM UTC-4, Wally Estrella wrote: > > "It was earlier stated that the selected builder can complete 1.5 fillet > frames a day." > Here's one hour of the reason why. From Brian at Chapman Cycles > https://www.instagram.com/p/By8C2DPldjC/ > > > On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 5:38:43 PM UTC-4, Abcyclehank wrote: >> >> Today’s Riv email stated that they are awaiting the arrival of the Susies >> (lighter sub 165lb rider) version of Gus. Once tested the the presale will >> occur. It was earlier stated that the selected builder can complete 1.5 >> fillet frames a day. A large variable will be the number of bikes ordered >> by individuals, dealers, and RBW itself. >> Super excited but equally patient. Just glad Riv and their special >> builds are still rolling out after 25 years. >> >> Ryan Hankinson > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/9cdab644-94e7-49a0-b81b-8e0d0623ca94%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
