Quickbeam remains my favorite model name and I didn't even know at the time it was a Tolkien reference. I was at Riv looking at the original prototype and mentioned to Mark Abele that I loved the tree on the headbadge, he told me Quickbeam is an Ent. A talking tree! Love it.
On Sunday, August 14, 2022 at 12:04:36 PM UTC-7 alexander...@gmail.com wrote: > Love that bombadill, and those reasons make a lot of sense to me. I will > admit part of the draw of the Quickbeam (over the Simpleone and Roaduno) is > the Tolkien name! > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022, 1:23 PM lconley <lco...@brph.com> wrote: > >> I currently own 12 Rivendells and have owned 3 others. >> I am going to go with the 52cm Bombadil as the One Rivendell to Rule Them >> All: >> 1. It is the Rivendell that I have owned the longest. >> 2. It is the only Rivendell that I own that has a name from the Tolkien >> books. >> 3. It can do anything, my Custom is kind of specialized in nature. My >> goal in building the bike was "What bike would I build to ride around the >> world?" It has 40 spoke wheels, a 7 speed freewheel Phil Wood rear hub - >> almost zero offset - very strong. Front and rear Nitto racks, aged Brooks >> B-68, SON front dyno hub, matching tweed Nigel Smyth. Shimano Altus RD >> 4. Made in USA - Waterford built the frame, Nobilette added the rear >> tentacles. >> 3. It is the Rivendell that I have done the longest ride on - 2 day Cross >> Florida Ride - 170 miles. >> It is in the middle of a parts swap, and installing fenders, - incomplete >> but here it is: >> >> >> [image: bomb2s.jpg] >> >> Laing >> Delray Beach FL >> >> -- >> 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/F0MrD6UmomY/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/995a5170-2896-48f6-9e41-6012e0cc91cbn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/995a5170-2896-48f6-9e41-6012e0cc91cbn%40googlegroups.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/b52e5a33-afb7-4a1a-b40c-56627ce29b09n%40googlegroups.com.
