2014 - back surgery that ended my days riding with the local cycling club, which modeled the typical road riding group with club kits and racing bikes. Sold my Cannondale CAAD9. 6 months later, when it looked like I would be able to resume bike riding in some form I desired to build up a bike inspired by the 70's and 80's lugged framesets I grew up with. A Sam Hillborne was my 1st choice, but I had a hard time warming up to the sloping double top tube on the 62cm. So I looked at other brands, but none had a long enough head tube which would allow me to get the bars up high, or they were not lugged frame sets. I wound up ordering a Sam Hillborne frame set in the spring of 2015 and built it up with lots of shiny silver components (no black parts initially, thought that has evolved over time). I initially had plans on putting drop bars on it, but Keven talked me into trying a pair of Albatross bars, which have been on it till just recently, when I switched to Choco bars. Oh, and that double top tube, it's come to grow on me.
On Monday, December 13, 2021 at 11:44:39 AM UTC-8 Patrick Moore wrote: > Thanks, Ryan. Now, that article is really a blast from the past. 20 mm > head tube extension! High bar 4" below saddle! Looong 42.5 cm chainstays! > 10 mm dropouts! (One thing I disliked about the otherwise top-of-pile 1999 > Joe Custom was the "short horizontal" dropouts as Riv used to describe > them. I had them replaced by specially sourced extra long ones about 35 mm > long.) But Lai's description of the handling certainly repeats what > everyone seems to say. > > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:48 AM Ryan <ryte...@mts.net> wrote: > >> I know Bicycling did a short review of the all-rounder in the nineties; >> might have been Jim Langley and Addison Wilhite who wrote the Rambler blog >> scanned many early Rivendell reviews. I rather like this review of the Riv >> Road by Garrett Lai of Bicycle Guide who had a stable of really good writers >> >> https://www.addisonwilhite.com/uploads/4/0/1/2/40122449/rivendell_road_review_-_1996.pdf >> >> >> Me - 1993 X0-1 - lover of old B-stone catalogues with their art and >> writing and rather nice production bikes, but not as fancy as the Rivs >> >> 1997 - green all-rounder >> >> late 2000 Curt Goodrich custom harvest gold road bike >> >> early 2017 ordered Dec 31 2015 Mark Nobilette maroon custom mixte >> >> Still have all 4 bikes...my one material extravagance >> >> Love their ethos and earlier classic sensibility and they're lovely >> people. I like it that their newer stuff is a lot more affordable and it's >> clearly making people very happy >> >> On Monday, December 13, 2021 at 10:52:58 AM UTC-6 Patrick Moore wrote: >> >>> If anyone can find this review and post it or a link to it, I'd be very >>> grateful. >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 8:01 PM <rlti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I read a review of a Riv Road in Bicycling magazine in the late 90’s >>>> and that review led me to research Rivendell bicycles. That research led >>>> me >>>> to the BOB group which soon lead to a custom order for an All Rounder >>>> being >>>> placed. >>>> >>> -- >> > 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/590751e9-e8ce-4feb-b822-f26278eb7bd3n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/590751e9-e8ce-4feb-b822-f26278eb7bd3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- 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/0fb93ac6-700a-4d1c-a8d2-dc045879b9dcn%40googlegroups.com.
