A Romulus sounds fantastic if it fits you and you like the way it rides. I came across someone riding a Romulus on Bike Tour of Colorado a while back when I rode the event. That was a 450ish mile event over 7 days with umpteen tens of thousands of feet of climbing and many passes over 10,000 feet with fast downhills. Even back then in the mid-late 00s us Riv riders stood out from the sea of crabon fibre. I think there were 5 of us on Rivs, IIRC.
Jim Austin, TX On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 2:32 PM Leah Peterson <jonasandle...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I found a 55 cm Romulus for $1250. What do we think of THAT? > > On Apr 23, 2024, at 3:02 PM, Jim Bronson <jim.bron...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Get an old one like a Rambouillet for true road-ability. The early > Rivs are the best if you are into club riding. I love my Clem for being > versatile but I have ridden over 20,000 Km of brevets on my 90s Riv Road > Standard or custom, not sure which. I bought it used. I have mine 650B > converted, run 650Bx38 with the Tektro long, long reach brakes, 55-73 > reach, IIRC. There's several others in the forum that have theirs done > this way as well. > > Jim > Austin, TX burbs > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 2:33 PM Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! < > jonasandle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I’m starting to wonder about a roadbike. But it has to be a Rivendell >> roadbike because I’m loyal and all that. Anyway, I don’t know that the >> Roadini really offers enough of a change for me. I have no idea what is >> going on with the Gallup. Then there’s the Roadeo - that one looks great >> but there’s a 2 year wait, unless I can find one used. Which would be >> ideal. >> >> Who rides their Rivbike in club rides and what do you ride? Who has a >> Roadeo that never gets ridden and wants to sell it? I don’t even know what >> size I’d be but I’m an 81 PBH. Must I ride drop bars? I never have before. >> I know nothing about any of this. Clearly. >> >> Note: I still like my raspberry Platypus for club riding but it does take >> a toll on me in wind. I recently got a shorter-height, longer-reach stem >> which marginally helped, but our high spring winds are taking it out of me. >> I did a club ride yesterday with my women’s group and my heart rate was in >> the 170s the whole 26.3 miles. It was brutal. Everyone else agreed it was a >> hard ride, but I felt like it was harder on me than them, and I’m the >> youngest and probably the most fit. >> >> Leah >> >> -- >> 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/fab5132f-e8ca-4a76-842d-9b994853e099n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/fab5132f-e8ca-4a76-842d-9b994853e099n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > signature goes here > > -- > 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/uXZ6OSH6T-s/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/CA%2BypmEYZB_j5Zyvx2sKs7jn%3DETF5EN%2B81pCxky6m2nb7hX82zw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CA%2BypmEYZB_j5Zyvx2sKs7jn%3DETF5EN%2B81pCxky6m2nb7hX82zw%40mail.gmail.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/951B2CAA-A7C8-422B-9526-85388CA742C3%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/951B2CAA-A7C8-422B-9526-85388CA742C3%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- 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/CA%2BypmEbea%2BqvVBreffyT4-aqqkCkLR7eZnUnak2s%3DskjRbTV%3DA%40mail.gmail.com.
