On Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 9:36:36 AM UTC-6 peter....@gmail.com wrote: ... 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.
Holy Moly! That is an absolutely stunning restore/rebuild! And lovely studio work to show it off. There's a good chance I saw your Sherwood Green frame at the factory - we were pretty busy working on the Heron concept at that point, so I was down there a lot. I agree with that Sherwood Green wasn't a great color for Rivs - as you said, doesn't show off the lugs. My wife and I gave each other a Santana tandem for our wedding gift to each other in 1986. Not long ago we had Waterford paint it in Light English Blue, so I'm a big fan of that color. The Santana graphics are white and gold - perfect combo! As for the question about durability of Waterford's paint - they had a period back then when something went wrong with their chemical pre-treatment bath. The first batch of Herons suffered from that. In addition to the tandem, I had them repaint my Proto Bleriot in metallic copper (root beer!) and both paint jobs were excellent and have been durable. It's not just by luck you worked with Richard, as he does all the customer facing stuff for Waterford. If any of you are ever talking with him and are interested in music, ask him about the orchestra he plays in. Ah, the fabulous Salsa seatpost. I wanted Grant to work that mechanism into the lugged post. It's such a great "screw the weight, it's functional!" kind of thing. Is the saddle from Fyxation? If so, it's the same as the Soma Ensho, which is the same as what used to be sold by Dimension as the Afton Classic. It's made by Velo in Taiwan. If that's what it is, you'll see Velo molded into the bottom. Sean Virnig tipped me to that saddle and I have either the Afton or the Ensho on almost every bike. Sean referred to that color (which is usually real leather, unlike the other colors) as Baby Poo Brown. I put it on my son-in-law's Rambouillet (Waterford repaint in dark blue metallic) with brown leather bar wrap, and it looks just right. As others have said, kudos for putting the love back into the bike. As I said about one of Eric Marth's projects, I love seeing people do this sort of thing where it's clear they're not thinking about "what can I sell this for?" Ted Durant Milwaukee WI USA -- 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/e4cc41ad-b04e-46d1-8e1f-fbc1d03c5521n%40googlegroups.com.
