Difference between the the All-Rounder and Mountain is tubing, sloping top tube, and vertical rear drop outs. The Mountain was supposed to come with it's own proprietary lug set and some special fork crown, but I think in the interest of cost savings at the time probably due to the lower number of Mountains built in comparison to All-Rounders and Road Standards they just used the same lug set as the All-Rounders. I was always interested to see what the fork crown was going to look like. My hopes were that they would do a version of the Ritchey Bi-plane fork crown. May be it is the fork crown used on the Appaloosa. Rivendell that I know never showed any copied of the initial Mountain lugset.
The early Rivendell bikes will have small differences between frames due to the nature of the options available. I had exchanges with Grant about building with KGB/Breezer drop outs and Rollercam mounts. He said no on the Breezer style mounts due to the style not being out of style with the nature of the frame build, but was ok with going with Rollercam mounts. I eventually decided to stick with cantis. I think the options were cable stops or shifter mounts on the downtuble, extended headtube, contrasting cream painted headtube, braze on types and numbers and possibly rear spacing. Reginald Alexis On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 1:25:26 PM UTC-6 John in PDX wrote: > Shifting - have an 8-speed shimano bar end, and thats the intended end > result, to have 8-speed index in the rear. The vintage Deore XT hubs have > a 7 speed cassette, and don't think it can accept 8 speeds - maybe using a > cut down 10 speed cassette. I've tried it in index mode and it seems to > work on the 7 speed, except needing to use two clicks on one of the lower > cogs. What I've read is Sram is compatible with Shimano index wise. > > On Riv mountain frames, wonder how many were made and how different they > might be from the All Rounder. Sloping top tube makes sense, maybe > slightly more relaxed front geometry? > > On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 9:06:07 PM UTC-8 R. Alexis wrote: > >> John, >> >> Nice looking bike. I have a Rivendell Mountain in single color silver >> from that era I got from Rivendell. It has a sloping top tube. When I >> ordered it I wanted the option of possibly using dirt drop bars on it. >> There have been times I wish I would have gotten the cream contrasting >> painted headtube. >> >> Are you friction shifting the SRAM Rival rear der or are the shifters >> SRAM compatible? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Reginald Alexis >> >> On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 12:42:41 PM UTC-6 John in PDX wrote: >> >>> The All Rounder came to me from the original owner who had lots of >>> documentation, ordered in 1995, delivered in January 1996. Will continue >>> to evolve components, working towards Shimano 8-speed index, enjoying the >>> Gevenalle shifter pods. >>> >>> Hope this link works. >>> >>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/v9nhn5sdHzvmHPM58 >>> >>> -- 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/8e0c7e3a-9cb5-4469-bd6b-ddece973a8cfn%40googlegroups.com.
