A funky monkey could only be used if you changed to a 27.2 seatpost with the proper seat tube shim. The Roco has a 29.8 post.
If the seat lug teardrop thingy didn't go so far down you could attach a 31.8mm front drop cable stop with either a curved or flexible noodle to adjust for the angle, but it's there so that won't work either. The Tektro fork mounted hangers look fine and all on a computer screen. When the rubber meets the road however, it appears the rear brake bridge is like the Susie, with the threaded hold facing down. Besides, even if you could attach it, those hangers on the rear place the cable stop notably offset (rearward) from where a frame mounted cable stop would be. I tried it on the Susie. All of that though .....well why should one have to go through all those hoops when the entire problem is one of omitting the cable stop bridge ? ((Yes I know, I'm just howling to the moon and the Moon ain't replying, teeheehee)) They cost about $1.95 from a frame supplier, retail. For a builder, ummm .... pennies. Labor involved, c'mon ..... do we really want to go there ? So it surely can't be about penny pinching, especially on a $1350 frame. So why not include it ?(((again ... how-ooo-ling))) I could make all sorts of not so nice assumptions but they'd be no more than that. There is really no excuse for not having one. Canti brakes are not going away. There's plenty to choose from still, so no that's no excuse. I'm okay with not getting one though as it wasn't exactly what I'd like in frame anyways. I have a Susie and as of now I have no desire to even build it, let alone ride. Through all this I realize I happen to really like "regular" diamond shaped bikes that take stock length chains and can be used with either drop bars or say a Albatross/stache bar, not one of those monster swept back bars. While I'll never rid myself of the Bombadil I don't think I'll ever buy another Riv. That's not knock, just my preference from what feels natural to me, that's like my custom Franklin road/sport/touring kinda frame. On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 4:28:42 PM UTC-4 lconley wrote: > Ran into the same thing on the Rosco Baby: > > [image: b (2).jpg] > > Laing > > > On Monday, July 18, 2022 at 4:22:28 PM UTC-4 Eric Daume wrote: > >> That's a good idea Laing... I have some nice cantis I would like to use, >> but no V brakes on hand. I think I'll try something like this. >> >> Eric >> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:19 PM lconley <lco...@brph.com> wrote: >> >>> Use one of these. Works front or rear with different length bolt: >>> [image: brake.JPG][image: brake.JPG] >>> >>> Laing >>> >> >>> -- 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/5729c76d-335d-449d-a729-d2cbbf4ae544n%40googlegroups.com.
