Patrick, You're right. I had forgotten the first green ones were canti. For some reason had it burned in my brain mine was sidepull. Just checked some old photos. Nope. Canti mounts. Looks like I was using V brakes for most of the time.
Wonder if it was because the Tektro long sidepulls weren't available yet? I can't run tires over 40mm and fenders on mine now. Would love to run 42 to 45 with fenders. But am so used to this bike don't want to move it on and start over with another one. Not that it matters right now as the only bike getting ridden is the Clem L. Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 9:00 AM Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had a first edition Sam, all green with no cream or white, > pre-double-top-tubes, and with cantilever brakes. Orange and sidepulls > obviously came afterward. > > Why did Rivendell start using calipers on the Sam? Cantilevers are a > natural for this, for wider tires and fender clearance, especially as (I > think) the later designs accommodated wider tires than the first ones. > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 6:33 AM EricP <epericmpl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, I believe it was first green, then orange, solid color. Had a green >> one. It's possible they were both available for a while. Then it was the >> blue with white/cream headtube option. Still sidepull brakes. And double >> top tubes on the big sizes. That's the model I still have. Believe the next >> batch after that went to canti. Really wish I had waited for that version. >> But of course had no idea it was in the works. >> >> Eric Platt >> St. Paul, MN >> >> On Friday, No >> > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/iQAlTCYBd3w/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/CALuTfgu3UXk5Cizgge4qyfByQ4k3Sr%3D3%3Dwm1N3qWEc8jrcO3NA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgu3UXk5Cizgge4qyfByQ4k3Sr%3D3%3Dwm1N3qWEc8jrcO3NA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAC%3DA9uLgGuXUU1dDyYbJ6%2B9iJfsFBjvScT4RGooqtAodNpxHkQ%40mail.gmail.com.
