Have you verified that was what got built? My Custom is thankfully different from the plan in some aspects. The plan shows Roadini style baseball bat tapered seat and and top tubes which I find ugly. Nobilette apparently just went with the big end size (31.8) for all of the main triangle tubes which is how I ended up with a 29.0 seatpost. It calls for a ball socket seat lug which I guess they don't have in 31.8 x 31.8 so I ended up with regular fluted seat stay caps. I haven't verified the angles yet, but the plan says mine has 72 deg seat tube angle and 71.5 head tube angle with a little more trail (62.9) than yours. I don't have any tube thickness info on my plans. It is a beautiful bike.
Laing On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 7:36:55 PM UTC-5 Joe Bernard wrote: > Oh right, I have numbers for why my Rivendell rides the way it does. I > forgot! > > 71.5 seattube, 69.5 headtube. I wanted a pavement-biased frame for > non-touring-level loads and this is how it turned out. [image: > Screenshot_20221117_163140.jpg] > On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 4:02:08 PM UTC-8 John Hawrylak wrote: > >> Joe >> >> What is the Seat Tube Angle of your custom?? >> >> John Hawrylak >> Woodstown NJ >> >> On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 at 5:41:41 PM UTC-5 Joe Bernard wrote: >> >>> This is an edited version of an email I recently sent Grant, I wanted to >>> post here cuz I think the magical Riv ride he designs into these frames is >>> slightly under discussed..like we all know it and love it, then talk about >>> other stuff like paint and parts. My comments are specifically about my >>> custom but I've owned a bunch of Rivs and they all ride like this (Clem >>> maybe not so light-feeling, but still zippy). Add your thoughts about your >>> bikes! : >>> >>> The handling is amazing. It feels light and zippy, yet absorbs shock >>> (there's a lot of shock on these roads) and is very stable. When you put it >>> in a turn it goes where you point it and holds the line until you change >>> it. It does this when getting bumped offline, too..the darn thing pops >>> right back to where it was going! I've ridden a bazillion bikes and nothing >>> rides like a Rivendell 🙌 >>> >>> Joe Bernard >>> >> -- 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/34b72088-6871-4288-a12f-71ec4102c161n%40googlegroups.com.
