It’d be cool to see photos or videos of someone riding the bike. I’m curious about how the handlebars can be comfy at that angle!
On Monday, February 6, 2023 at 7:08:20 AM UTC-8 lconley wrote: > More correctly, mine has a crescent moon above the curly-cue as opposed to > the three dots above the curly cue. > > Laing > > On Monday, February 6, 2023 at 9:45:44 AM UTC-5 lconley wrote: > >> Something that I have noticed is that My Bombadil has a different fork >> crown than many. Most seem to have the curly-cue on the crown but mine has >> crescent moon, like the Clementine: >> >> [image: Curly-Cue.JPG] >> >> [image: bomb2 (2).jpg] [image: Capture (3).PNG] >> >> Laing >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:16:08 AM UTC-5 eric...@gmail.com >> wrote: >> It seems the Bombadil and Hunqapillar frames are beloved. They're stout, >> beautiful, and sometimes have intricate additional tubes and lugs. While >> I've done a lot of reading about Rivendell I was a bit unclear on the >> origins and intended uses of these frames. >> >> I wanted to start a thread where we could share and dump info about these >> bikes along with pictures of builds. >> >> Joe and Jim were helpful in laying out a bit of background in another >> thread >> <https://groups.google.com/g/rbw-owners-bunch/c/mkxv02ciCM4/m/KqWZOIMQAwAJ>, >> there's >> some great info there. >> >> The original Hunqapillar catalog is up here: >> http://notfine.com/rivendell/Brochures/Rivendell%20Frames%20Hunqapillar.pdf >> >> The first mention I can find of the Bombadil is in RR 41, sometime in >> 2009. Excerpted pages attached. As a few members might recall I am very >> into raw frames with brass spilling out of the lugs! I know that many >> Bombadil owners have had their frames repainted like Jason Fuller, whose >> absolute stunner shows up here from time to time. By the way, the picture >> below is one of my very favorite Rivendell images. >> >> -- 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/297b3ffd-d77c-4b13-a6c3-8d638870d75dn%40googlegroups.com.
