Peter, that is a timelessly beautiful bicycle. Bravo for spending the $$ and taking the time to preserve it. IMHO, there is nothing so satisfying as riding a bicycle you have owned and maintained for years and years. Richard is one of our greatest treasures as he keeps on keeping on. Cycling royalty right there!
BEST / Jock Dewey On Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 7:36:36 AM UTC-8 peter....@gmail.com wrote: > This may be my first post here, though it's likely I posted way back > when (I probably should check that!) > > ... So I just had my 1995 Rivendell Road restored at Waterford Precision > Cycles late last Fall. I actually ordered the frame in 1995, it was brazed > at the Waterford factory in late '95 and delivered to me in January of > 1996. So I consider a 1995. It was originally Sherwood Forest Green. > > Here it is now: > > [image: Rivendell Studio 1-28-230034- Format10 export.jpg] > > By luck or happenstance, I actually worked directly with Richard Schwinn > on the project and I gravitated toward the color "*English Light Blue > metalic" *when I saw a sample *. *At first I wasn't sure the re-paint > would happen as a few surface rust spots could have been worse than > suspected, but all the potential problems turned out to be superficial. > > I rode this bike over the last 27+ years in a variety of configurations: > as a near-racer, later a fendered commuter, at some points I added indexed > Suntour Superbe derailleurs and later an old Simplex rear friction > derailleur. It had Modolo brakes for years as well as some 1989 single > Pivot Dura-Ace calipers. Eventually it received hand-me-down older racing > bike parts, Shimano and Campy, from my racing bikes and it is now pretty > much a traditional British style race bike in the tradition of the > Bridgestone RB-1, except with 11-speed drive train. > > This current build is mostly Campy with an Athena rear derailleur (I > wanted a lot of chrome), Record square taper BB and crank (maybe my > favorite crank of all time), rebuilt Record hubs, Chorus calipers and > record front derailleur.. The seatpost is a cool Salsa that can be tilted > with out loosening the clamp. Stem is a wonderful old Nitto Pearl. Rims are > Hed Belgium with 28c Rene Hearse tires. The seat is a no-name something or > other I found on Amazon and bought for the color, turns out to be a great > seat for me. > > So I just finished the build last week and felt this was a good place to > share. I have a particular affinity for the Richard Sachs designed lugs. > > [image: _PSG0709- FM sRGB 2400px 1.jpg] > > Here is a cloud folder of frame-only photos and a few after built. > https://ln5.sync.com/dl/daf4b7440/vjrbrwbt-ipme6hme-k74hpdjr-9ky5ayyr > > > -- 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/9b996478-b810-41af-b7e3-db0679ae3635n%40googlegroups.com.
