Very nice! On Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 8:59:10 PM UTC-4 Paul Brodek wrote:
> Took a little while, but I finally landed Ray Foss' '98 Custom Starck-Riv > Road frameset. Ray got it from the original owner, but with many other > awesome mounts to choose from, Ray never managed to build it up. Doesn't > look like Art M., the original owner, rode it much before selling it to > Ray. I did manage to build it up, but haven't managed to ride it yet. Maybe > tomorrow? > > It's only my second Riv, the first was an even earlier '95 Waterford-Riv > Road. Bought that one from Peter B. maybe 7-8yrs ago, sold it last > year-ish. If I do the math, gaining 3yrs every Riv buy over an 8yr stretch, > in about 64yrs I'll have myself a '21! I'm catching up! > > I mulled over the build while reeling it in, decided on this first > go-round to do a period-correct-ish Riv quasi-tribute, all silver > components, nothing insanely current. The frame came with Silver dt > shifters, so they had to stay. Very few silver-rimmed wheelsets under my > roof, at least ones that are modern-enough to have a 130mm rear OLN. All I > had was a clean set of Ultegra tri-color hubs on Mavic Reflex SUP. 'Sup? > Then I found a decent amount of Dura-Ace 7x00-series silver stuff, so > rder/brakes/cranks/stem are D-A. The top tube is a little on the long side > for me, 60.5cm, so the D-A stem is only 90mm. Tried a D-A post, but there's > not a lot of post showing, and the bottom of the flutes on the D-A post sat > below the lugline, providing a possible water incursion route, so a > cut-short Thomson Elite works for now. Been saving the green Brooks B-17 > Champion standard for something, turns out it was this. > > I wanted non-aero brake cable routing, but I'm no longer thrilled with > those smaller vintage lever bodies. Then I remembered a pair of Campy > C-Record dual-routing levers were....somewhere...and they turned up. > Pairing them with the D-A 7800 dual-pivots is a little weird, I'm wishing > the caliper spring tension was higher, but it oughta work OK. > > It's geared for now with a 38/24 compact double, using a Peter > White-sourced TA Zephyr K tripelizer ring, mounted on the inside position. > 11-28t 8spd cassette in the rear, so I still get a decent low gear and can > use the med-cage D-A rder. The Shimano CX-70 fder sits a little high over > the outer ring, can't get it any lower without scraping the top of the > chainstay, but it shifts fine in the stand. I didn't have a BBG bashguard > small enough to use in the outer position, I'd have to raise the fder even > higher for that, so there's a weird BBG spacer thingie there. Coulda just > used track chainring bolts, but I guess I was looking for more silvery > bling, and an unused outer chainring ledge just looks a little lonely. > > The frame's built around 49mm-reach brakes, and the 33mm Soma Supple > Vitesse SLs at about 30mm on the narrow Mavic rims are close to max. Pinch > point is under the calipers, as it should be on a well-designed 49mm-reach > frame, so wider would work OK, but taller would get too tight. > > Having never shifted an 8spd cog range in friction mode before, I'm > looking forward to a nice ride with a fair amount of cussing. > > Flickr album here: > https://flic.kr/s/aHsmQTkD5A > > [image: 50364618333_7b44b70f2e_c.jpg] > > [image: 50365316941_5a20d1cf7d_c.jpg] > > [image: 50364617503_09c1647a2e_c.jpg] > > [image: 50365315696_71c9a96177_c.jpg] > > > Paul Brodek > Hillsdale, NJ USA > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1b53c60b-3bdd-43c7-92b6-9879a52b520fn%40googlegroups.com.