Just joined group! Have four Rivs now. First one, a custom long low road bike, purchased in 1999. Now has upright bars after going through drops, moustache, albastache. At this point in my biking I just ride uprights. Next is an Appaloosa from 2018 after I got back into riding following 5+years off due to knee pain that would occur each season just as I was getting in shape. Has a big wald basket in front, rear rack. Then in late 2022 got a RoscoBubbe Platypus because it was so cool! Now in 2025 recently came across a Clem, a very good deal on fully equipped(fenders, rack, fillet brazed stem). The clem is something else to ride. 64cm of luxury lol.(56cm chainstays!) 57mm G-ones, 31.8 mm tosco bar. brand x rims but they are 35mm wide! Alternating in 2's light and dark spoke nipples? Picked it up from first owner who apparently had to sell. Barely ridden! I am basically a street cruiser now and hope I am done buying bikes! 99'Riv 63cm, Appaloosa double top tube 62cm, Purple Rosco Plat at 60cm. Was taken by Rivendell approach from chance encounter with Grant Petersen at bike club presentation. The man has true character! Long Live Rivendell!
I On Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 1:03:53 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > Hah! I recall a visitor looking at my 1999 26” wheel 57 c-c fixed road > bike and saying, “That is a *big* frame.” This man was at least 6’3”. > Nope, just wheels 2 1/2” smaller in diameter on a medium frame. > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM Steven Sweedler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I heardGrant comment that they started making 700C ARs because of >> negative comments about the look of large frames with 26” wheels, >> especially the headtubes. >> >> Steven Sweedler >> Plymouth, New Hampshire >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I didn’t realize that Rivendell made 700C Allrounders. Were these only >>> in larger — over 60 cm c-c — sizes? >>> >>> My first 26” custom Riv Road was designed around the original 26” wheel >>> Allrounder but with slightly steeper head and made with road tubing (753; >>> were Allrounders made from this? I hear Grant had thicker walls spec’d) >>> and road (H James) lugs; fork was 531. It was nice but sized like the XO-1 >>> and therefore with very low stack; I resorted to custom Salsa quill stems >>> that worked well but looked ugly. It wasn’t bad and I rode it for at least >>> 10 years in various builds but my later 26” customs were much better. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM Marty Gierke, Stewartstown PA < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Let's see...these were all nice bikes, but not quite right for a >>>> variety or reasons, or just bad timing budget wise. >>>> >>>> Quickbeam >>>> Bombadil (1st gen) >>>> Bombadil (the one with the diagatube all the way to the dropouts) >>>> Atlantis (Toyo) >>>> 700c All Rounder (Goodrich built) >>>> Roscoe Bubbe (64cm - the one Will designed) >>>> Hunqapillar (too small for me) >>>> Clem H (nice, but too long for my taste) >>>> >>>> And the accidental keeper I happened across after learning that customs >>>> were no longer being offered: >>>> >>>> 63cm Rivendell custom 700c All Rounder (Nobillette built - and pretty >>>> much what I would have ordered anyway) >>>> >>>> How long did all that take? Let's just say E*ver Since 1994*. >>>> >>> -- >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguZmsAV3nq4hz-wQrThgPg11e2Rz0FMpzFmchrpkQDwTA%40mail.gmail.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguZmsAV3nq4hz-wQrThgPg11e2Rz0FMpzFmchrpkQDwTA%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 [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALimyfKG6LJnvrdqgK2FiAprHo8utJ%2BNEd6B2-TD5biGUmWdPA%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALimyfKG6LJnvrdqgK2FiAprHo8utJ%2BNEd6B2-TD5biGUmWdPA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing > services > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* > > *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* > > *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/9f2ae3a4-c555-4452-8b7b-6f91788aa0cbn%40googlegroups.com.
