[RBW] Re: FS: Sackville XS seatbag, green
Sold! On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 7:03:01 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: Green canvas, honey leather. Realistically this was mounted/removed more often that it actually spent outside. I would either pull it before a ride for a bigger Carradice or Acorn, or grab another bike with such already installed. This is a great not-so-little little bag, but I seem incapable of leaving the house without a week's supply of stuff in a big saddlebag. So it's time for a minimalist to give it a whirl. $50 shipped, email or text 415-786-4623 for pics. Thanks, Joe Bernard -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] 650b Rim: Dyad or A23
I'd be using 36h rim/hub, so I think the A23 should be sufficient. Leaning towards that getting them through my LBS so I can build up wheels one at a time and not have to worry about shipping. First the rear, then a dynamo front to replace a Synergy-rim front wheel. Though I'll more than likely start with tubes, it would be nice to try tubeless and have rims ready to try that out. David Chicago On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 10:51:09 PM UTC-5, cyclot...@gmail.com wrote: I have and like both, in 700C. A23 are nicer. My favorite rims. If you're riding unloaded on road, should be fine. As Bill said, your mass is the only variable that would push toward a Dyad. Still really nice rims. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Lungimsam john1...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Have you looked at the Grand Bois 650b rim? I like mine slot. Sourced by my LBS but also can get through Compass Cycles. -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com javascript:. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride. - Seth Vidal -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: FS: 58CM Sam Hillborne Sage Green
pretty1 On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 8:37:01 PM UTC-4, Ryan Thompson wrote: I’m selling my 58cm Sam Hillborne double top tube in Sage Green to make room for another Rivendell mixte. I purchased the bike new in January 2014. There are few scratches here and there from mounting racks, some scratches from when I dropped the chain the first time I rode the bike, and a scratch on the seat lug from mounting a trail-a-bike. Pretty standard albatross Riv build: 9spd Dura Ace bar end shifters CX-70 front derailleur Deore rear derailleur Sugino Wide/Low - 175mm arms with 40/24 rings 9sp 11/32 cassette 9sp Chain FSA sealed cartridge bearing headset Tektro R559 silver side pull long-reach brakes Nitto Albatross chromo handlebars with Nitto Tallux stem 10cm Shimano mountain bike brake levers Silver Meisha's corks grips with groove for barend shifters (Amber shelacked) Kalloy seatpost silver Brooks B17 honey Rich built Velocity Synergy wheels with Shimano XT 36 hole hubs New Schwalbe Marathon GreenGuard tires 38mm MKS RMS Sneaker pedals Mark’s front Nitto rack with basket SKS longboard fenders in silver Pletcher single leg kickstand $1,800 complete. Hoping to sell locally in the DC Metro but will ship if the buyer covers shipping (CONUS only) and any paypal fees. I'm happy to answer any questions. Photos here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ashtop/sets/72157654405754032 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ashtop/sets/72157654405754032 Thanks, Ryan (804) 638-4315 Arlington, VA -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Car Racks Rivs
I have been riding bikes with fenders for about 15 years now and have only found one downside - they often don't play well with racks, neither locking racks nor car racks. We have a Saris TBones Hitch rack on our Prius and I found it worked well with both my Saluki or Ram and Pat's Sequoia. However I have never liked having the weight of the bikes up that high with the additional stress it puts on the rack and hitch. Now Pat has switched to riding a Betty with Albatross bars and I am always struggling to make the two bikes fit. It is doable as a two person job. I bought and tried one of these parallel TT but it made the situation worse. It's a challenge to get the her handle bars my front rackto clear. Likewise my bars her rear rack. Since both bikes have racks fenders, they are fairly heavy as bike go today but still within the racks spec. Still the vertical support flexes some under load. So... I have been looking at a new hitch racks, especially ones where the bikes sit in a well and get clamped around the tire. Does anyone have experience with these to share? Do you have to put the top clamp around the tire, or is it OK to put it over the fender? The Yakima rack installation instructions specifically say to put the top hook within 2 of the fork, which clearly rules out using it with any top rack, like my Mark's mini. The Saris instructions don't say that is necessary, but the video on their web site shows them setting it up that way. Finally, how close together are the wells; is there sufficient space for Albatross bars? Michael -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Report on: (1) clamp on rear rack under load; (2) merino under heat
Re: merino +1 at least as high as 85F 50% And for those in mid-ride-variable conditions it shines even more; avoid chills when it drops to 60F and starts to rain. My favorite is the Ibex U60. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
Hi Hugh, I tried a stem-to-seatpost adapter, but it just didn't seem secure enough, so I just tilt the frame and use the Betty's top tube. I had to remove one of the two water bottle cages. If we ever go somewhere she'll need two water bottles, I can always bring a cage two bolts. Or use a couple of Randi Jo M.U.T's. I've been really impressed by the Thule Apex 4. At first I was terrified to put our babies out back on the rack, but it's a right sturdy rack. John On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 1:19:51 PM UTC-7, hsmitham wrote: John, Do you need an adapter to mount your wife's betty? ~Hugh “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein http://velocipedemusings.blogspot.com/ On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:10 PM, John jphil...@icloud.com javascript: wrote: We use a Thule Apex 4 for my 54cm Hunqapillar my wife's 47cm Betty Foy on the back of our Honda CRV. Works well with Rivified bikes with fenders, racks baskets. John -- 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/cRc_NXxhS4g/unsubscribe . To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com javascript:. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Joy of Wrenching
There is something truely satisfying to me about bike wrenching. Maybe it's just the right balance of being some what arcane but at least on Riv/BOBish bikes pretty forgiving and knowable. And while I have plenty of bike projects that are or have taken longer than if like I can accomplish most in a single session if I've got the materials and tools right. Having the right tools makes all the difference. In the DC metro area I can't recommend Velocity CO-OP highly enough for a diy shop with all the tools. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Joy of Wrenching
You needed a CSI-like string set-up showing each part's starting and ending positions! With abandon, Patrick On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 4:27:32 PM UTC-6, David Banzer wrote: A couple weeks ago I had about 4 bike apart to swap parts between them - got a little confusing! I could've used an actual written down list of what needed to be done. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hub Area Rack with Swift MIni Short Stack Panniers (or other bags)?
The width of the latches on Arkels is adjustable, so the problem would be to keep the hook from sliding off the lowest bar of the HAR. Maybe Swift has seen someone rig a fix for something like this. John -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
It's a relatively trivial issue, as far as I'm concerned. Now that has never limited a thread, has it? Cheerfully, Edwin On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 4:47:07 PM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: On 06/12/2015 05:33 PM, Edwin W wrote: I think that Jan does a great job of disclosing and being honest in reviews AND having a business that runs on a certain kind of biking introduces a bias.. which is why he should disclose! It is impossible to measure this bias, we all have to work out in our mind how much he is biased. In my mind, things like the assessment of clipless pedal and going up short hills involves a grain of salt because it is not as rigorous as some of his other testing. A really good test would be to randomize a bunch of different kinds of cyclists to clipless and flats for each ride over a long period of time involving lots of different kinds of cycling and look at the average speeds with and without. But who is going to conduct that? What outcome would matter the most? Speed differential up a hill? Over a week of commuting? Over a year? Let's face it: those who like flat pedals - pedals without retention devices - aren't after performance gains that can be measured objectively. They're after comfort and convenience. Some riders can make them work quite effectively, and are happy to accept whatever objective performance deficits they may have. I have flat BMX pedals (albeit, without pins) on my shopper. I would never ride long distances on such a pedal: my feet slip off, and they often sit crooked on the pedals and I end up stepping on the crank arm or the chain stay. I'm very happy to have a pedal retention system take care of positioning my feet, while allowing me to lift my foot without worrying about it losing its place on the pedal or coming off entirely. I doubt the lifting of my feet substantially adds to power, as die hard advocates proclaim, but that's not the only reason to do it. I'm surprised this discussion has had so much staying power. It's a relatively trivial issue, as far as I'm concerned. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Joy of Wrenching
Funny. I am an impatient perfectionist, and this has obvious psychological disadvantages. I want my bikes to be perfect; yet I hate the hassle of that sort of plodding methodicalness that is an essential requirement of technical perfection. Fixed gear setups help, but my satisfaction in mechanical perfection is always tainted by irritation at the innumerable obstacles posed by materiality. Hum. Today, work being slack, I undertook the rehabilitation of my next door neighbor's ancient and replaced gas grill (I live a spit from our bosque, and a charcoal grill, I fear, would lead to the conflagration of the century). Ashes and cinders; grease and oil; hardening and caking. This $100 gas grill had all of these in spades, and even though I decided against using caustic solvents, levying the power of scrapers, bushes, and garden trowel, I ended up with, literally, 2 gallons of carbonated, ex-organic fatty substances removed from the works. I fashioned a new flame disperser* from 2 sections of tin can**; replaced the side shelving with miscellaneous lumber; confected a new hatch handle; bought a canister of propane; and lo and behold, i am now ready to grill like any suburban peritus. Point being, that actually usable results that result from one's own material and imaginative intervention are, not only very pleasing, but in some way, of the very essence of pleasure. Aside: Matthew Crawford's *Shop Class as Soul Craft* is a very worthwhile meditation on the things raised by this thread. Crawford is a good, pre-Christian Aristotelian, btw. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Mark Reimer marknrei...@gmail.com wrote: So true. It seems I'm constantly changing something on my bikes. Fenders on, fenders off. Three pairs of tires in a month. I wonder how the bike would handle if I swapped out X/Y/Z... I do the same thing with old motorcycles. Seems I'm constantly elbows-deep into them. Last night in the shop, my Dad walks in and asks what I'd estimate the ratio is of the time I spend wrenching on them to riding. Clearly he didn't understand :) On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 1:27:17 PM UTC-5, hsmitham wrote: Chris, Glad you found some time to work on your Hilsen, I bet you can't wait to start building your freshly painted travel Hilsen! I can't wait to see that build. Just a winning color my friend!! Currently, I'm redoing both cockpits on my Hilsen Atlantis, just finished wrapping the Albastache bars on the Hilsen after installing a 8cm Dirt Drop Stem. I rode it for about two weeks to make sure this was the right decision. Today I'll be cleaning the Drive train. The Atlantis got a new 10cm Tallux stem for the win! Today it gets new bar end shifters and a rear dynamo light. I'm hoping that these changes will last a really long time and I can just focus on lots of riding. Other smaller projects on the distant horizon to tinker/wrench on. Oh and I'm installing a Mark's rack on the Wife's Betty. When my wife looks in on me tinkering on the bikes in the garage she smiles and declares your pretty content and she's right! Working on bikes I get my Zen on. Doug, I was wondering what all that noise was coming from yer Atlantis? Silent or smooth drive train is the bee's knees! 15K on your cassette well done Sir. Tail Winds, ~Hugh On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 8:34:49 AM UTC-7, Chris Chen wrote: Life has been crazy for a while, and I haven't had the chance to work on the bikes in a few months. Just remembering to lube the chain requires forethought. Tonight I finally started fixing my Hilsen with new brakes, saddle, and cockpit. It felt so good. Here's hoping you find time in your life for a little soul maintenance cc -- I want the kind of six pack you can't drink. -- Micah -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop
[RBW] Re: WTT 62cm Hunq for 58cm
Deacon, if you don't understand the benefits of increased standover, you either aren't doing enough jumps or aren't going nearly fast enough :) On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 10:42:54 AM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: I ride a 62cm Hunqa on all kinds of stuff and have a PBH of 90cm without issue ever in the ?? years I've had it. The need for smaller frame to ride trails is highly exaggerated in my experience. May be worth playing with it with that in mind? With abandon, Patrick On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:34:50 AM UTC-6, Sam Wanless wrote: Just wanted to throw this out there: I have a 62cm Hunq (grey/bean color; purchased from Erik J), but I'd prefer some more stand over since I've been riding more sketchy single track. Anyone have a 58 that they'd like to like to trade for a 62cm? The frame is excellent, a few scraps, but no dents or dings. It's just a wee bit too big for the riding I'm doing. Thanks! Sam -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Joy of Wrenching
So true. It seems I'm constantly changing something on my bikes. Fenders on, fenders off. Three pairs of tires in a month. I wonder how the bike would handle if I swapped out X/Y/Z... I do the same thing with old motorcycles. Seems I'm constantly elbows-deep into them. Last night in the shop, my Dad walks in and asks what I'd estimate the ratio is of the time I spend wrenching on them to riding. Clearly he didn't understand :) On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 1:27:17 PM UTC-5, hsmitham wrote: Chris, Glad you found some time to work on your Hilsen, I bet you can't wait to start building your freshly painted travel Hilsen! I can't wait to see that build. Just a winning color my friend!! Currently, I'm redoing both cockpits on my Hilsen Atlantis, just finished wrapping the Albastache bars on the Hilsen after installing a 8cm Dirt Drop Stem. I rode it for about two weeks to make sure this was the right decision. Today I'll be cleaning the Drive train. The Atlantis got a new 10cm Tallux stem for the win! Today it gets new bar end shifters and a rear dynamo light. I'm hoping that these changes will last a really long time and I can just focus on lots of riding. Other smaller projects on the distant horizon to tinker/wrench on. Oh and I'm installing a Mark's rack on the Wife's Betty. When my wife looks in on me tinkering on the bikes in the garage she smiles and declares your pretty content and she's right! Working on bikes I get my Zen on. Doug, I was wondering what all that noise was coming from yer Atlantis? Silent or smooth drive train is the bee's knees! 15K on your cassette well done Sir. Tail Winds, ~Hugh On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 8:34:49 AM UTC-7, Chris Chen wrote: Life has been crazy for a while, and I haven't had the chance to work on the bikes in a few months. Just remembering to lube the chain requires forethought. Tonight I finally started fixing my Hilsen with new brakes, saddle, and cockpit. It felt so good. Here's hoping you find time in your life for a little soul maintenance cc -- I want the kind of six pack you can't drink. -- Micah -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Spotted for FS: 59cm Rambouillet
I spotted a 59cm Rambouillet at a local LBS in San Francisco, Pedal Revolution http://www.pedalrevolution.org/. The bike isn't mine and I don't work at the shop, I just like the shop a lot and thought it was a bit of an unusual place to find a Rambouillet ready to go so I thought I'd pass the info on. Full details on Pedal Revolution's blog: https://pedalrevolutionblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/rivendell-rambouillet-pedal-revolution-refurbished-bike-update/ Romel San Francisco -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
Jim, http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/lighthouse%20lakes/aP3140005.jpg it's great for kayaks, too On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:56:16 AM UTC-5, Jim Bronson wrote: That's about the only thing I miss about having a pick'm'up truck, it's great for hauling bikes around. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
If Heaven smiles on me, and God willing, and things go well, and the earth continues blithely in its orbit, while lambkins gambol and larks sing: I will have a size M, original edition (non-susp-corrected) Fargo frameset for sale in about 2 months. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:39 PM, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com wrote: I visited my favorite LBS today and they had a Vaya and a Fargo on the floor! Two bikes I've admired and wondered about for a couple of years. I really wanted to test ride them but instead, I limited my test rides to the bikes I'm actually considering purchasing. I dropped off a frame for some work so I plan to ride the Fargo, at the least, when I pick it up on Monday. If I ever get heavily into dirt riding, a flat-bar Fargo might be a good choice for me. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 11:39:50 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: Ooooh, oooh, and with Class 5 Vibration Reduction System. I'm still using Class 1 -- fat soft tires. Actually, it sounds very interesting and I'd love to try one, but I wonder if it can handle fenders and loads the way I hope any Fargo replacement I buy will. I don't suppose that there is any real liability to carbon fiber in this sort of bike, where you're not trying to build a 2 lb frame? On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Justin August justin...@icloud.com wrote: Patrick- Your ride is here, in Crabln Fibre: http://theradavist.com/2015/06/introducing-the-salsa-cycles-cutthroat-tour-divide-bike/#1 -J -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hunqapillar vs. Atlantis
Beyond stiffness of frame the only question is do you want to ride a mammoth or captain a ship. Grin. With abandon, Patrick On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 4:27:28 PM UTC-6, Kellie wrote: Both 26 wheels, both cantis, both fit a max. tire of 2.35 I'm my respective size. What are differences? Of course, beside the $300 for a frame. They even share the same build kits. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hub Area Rack with Swift MIni Short Stack Panniers (or other bags)?
I spent considerable time researching whether the HAR would play well with Lone Peak panniers, and came away with a no-go. I loved the idea of running the HAR in conjunction with the Nitto mini front rack, but it's too highly optimized for the Riv bags. I briefly considered going with Riv bags, but that connection is just too janky, even for me. Like you, I want the option of easy on/easy off, and the Irish strap option doesn't check that box. Interesting that the Ortlieb's work. I consider Ortlieb's overbuilt for my purpose, but it may be worth another look. I think the Arkel rails might be worth looking into, especially if you can get them in a short version or cut them down. The rail on the HAR is very short. But the Arkel system in general is rock solid. On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 4:31:35 PM UTC-7, DS wrote: Anyone use the HAR with other front panniers, or specifically the mini short stacks from swift? Do they fit or did you need to do anything creative to make them work? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
John, Do you need an adapter to mount your wife's betty? ~Hugh “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein http://velocipedemusings.blogspot.com/ On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:10 PM, John jphillip...@icloud.com wrote: We use a Thule Apex 4 for my 54cm Hunqapillar my wife's 47cm Betty Foy on the back of our Honda CRV. Works well with Rivified bikes with fenders, racks baskets. John -- 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/cRc_NXxhS4g/unsubscribe . To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
On 06/12/2015 05:33 PM, Edwin W wrote: I think that Jan does a great job of disclosing and being honest in reviews AND having a business that runs on a certain kind of biking introduces a bias.. which is why he should disclose! It is impossible to measure this bias, we all have to work out in our mind how much he is biased. In my mind, things like the assessment of clipless pedal and going up short hills involves a grain of salt because it is not as rigorous as some of his other testing. A really good test would be to randomize a bunch of different kinds of cyclists to clipless and flats for each ride over a long period of time involving lots of different kinds of cycling and look at the average speeds with and without. But who is going to conduct that? What outcome would matter the most? Speed differential up a hill? Over a week of commuting? Over a year? Let's face it: those who like flat pedals - pedals without retention devices - aren't after performance gains that can be measured objectively. They're after comfort and convenience. Some riders can make them work quite effectively, and are happy to accept whatever objective performance deficits they may have. I have flat BMX pedals (albeit, without pins) on my shopper. I would never ride long distances on such a pedal: my feet slip off, and they often sit crooked on the pedals and I end up stepping on the crank arm or the chain stay. I'm very happy to have a pedal retention system take care of positioning my feet, while allowing me to lift my foot without worrying about it losing its place on the pedal or coming off entirely. I doubt the lifting of my feet substantially adds to power, as die hard advocates proclaim, but that's not the only reason to do it. I'm surprised this discussion has had so much staying power. It's a relatively trivial issue, as far as I'm concerned. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
Actually the adapter made it even harder. It's always a bit of work to get the cradle through the sloped tubes but that puts her bars above my rear seat. With the adapter her bars and my seat or rear wheel want the same space. Michael On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 4:19:51 PM UTC-4, hsmitham wrote: John, Do you need an adapter to mount your wife's betty? ~Hugh “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein http://velocipedemusings.blogspot.com/ On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:10 PM, John jphil...@icloud.com javascript: wrote: We use a Thule Apex 4 for my 54cm Hunqapillar my wife's 47cm Betty Foy on the back of our Honda CRV. Works well with Rivified bikes with fenders, racks baskets. John -- 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/cRc_NXxhS4g/unsubscribe . To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com javascript:. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Oregon Outback
Thank you Brian! I have got to ride this route someday. John -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Joy of Wrenching
I'd say feel free to ask on this list and include where you're at and I'm sure if someone's in the area and has the expertise, they'd be more than willing to help. I have a never-ending wrenching list, trying to take my time and go one project at a time. A couple weeks ago I had about 4 bike apart to swap parts between them - got a little confusing! I could've used an actual written down list of what needed to be done. David Chicago On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 4:20:57 PM UTC-5, Evan E. wrote: I, too, like wrenching. But for a few tasks, such as changing a headset or replacing a bottom bracket, I don't have the tools or the skills. It's be awesome if the more skilled wrenches on this list could offer to help the less skilled among us. Imagine a list of volunteers, organized by city? They could maybe trade their labor for Riv gift certificates, or beer, or Paleo chocolate . . . -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Hunqapillar vs. Atlantis
Both 26 wheels, both cantis, both fit a max. tire of 2.35 I'm my respective size. What are differences? Of course, beside the $300 for a frame. They even share the same build kits. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: WTT 62cm Hunq for 58cm
That's possible. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 2:15:51 PM UTC-6, Mark Reimer wrote: Deacon, if you don't understand the benefits of increased standover, you either aren't doing enough jumps or aren't going nearly fast enough :) -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
I visited my favorite LBS today and they had a Vaya and a Fargo on the floor! Two bikes I've admired and wondered about for a couple of years. I really wanted to test ride them but instead, I limited my test rides to the bikes I'm actually considering purchasing. I dropped off a frame for some work so I plan to ride the Fargo, at the least, when I pick it up on Monday. If I ever get heavily into dirt riding, a flat-bar Fargo might be a good choice for me. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 11:39:50 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: Ooooh, oooh, and with Class 5 Vibration Reduction System. I'm still using Class 1 -- fat soft tires. Actually, it sounds very interesting and I'd love to try one, but I wonder if it can handle fenders and loads the way I hope any Fargo replacement I buy will. I don't suppose that there is any real liability to carbon fiber in this sort of bike, where you're not trying to build a 2 lb frame? On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Justin August justin...@icloud.com javascript: wrote: Patrick- Your ride is here, in Crabln Fibre: http://theradavist.com/2015/06/introducing-the-salsa-cycles-cutthroat-tour-divide-bike/#1 -J -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com javascript:. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: INVISIBLE LIFE PAINT GLOWS IN THE DARK
I already have a jacket from Britain that's even brighter. 100% reflective fabric. I look like a radioactive alien from a 1950's sci fi movie. But it doesn't protect me from people who don't believe in stopping for red lights or stop signs, nor yielding when making a left hand turn. They see and just don't care. John On Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 6:45:55 PM UTC-7, Jon Dukeman in the foothills of Colorado wrote: Not yet in the US. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/03/31/volvo_life_paint_invisible_safety_spray_paint_for_your_bike_that_glows_in.html -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
Wow, that 1up rack looks really nice but they don't exactly give them away! And their web site could use some help. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 11:09:12 AM UTC-4, jinxed wrote: Michael, be sure to check out 1up USA. I cannot stress how much I love their hitch rack. Working in the industry, I've sold, installed, and used every rack under the sun, and this one is by far the best I've ever seen. It's also made in the USA. I don't run fenders so I can't comment on that compatibility, but the only issues I could imagine would be protecting them from the clamping arms. https://www.1upusa.com/bicycleracks.html -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Great video of a impressive athlete, but is he really pulling up on the pedal? Looks like his awesome power comes from the downstroke. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hub Area Rack with Swift MIni Short Stack Panniers (or other bags)?
Has anyone tried Carradice? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Joy of Wrenching
I, too, like wrenching. But for a few tasks, such as changing a headset or replacing a bottom bracket, I don't have the tools or the skills. It's be awesome if the more skilled wrenches on this list could offer to help the less skilled among us. Imagine a list of volunteers, organized by city? They could maybe trade their labor for Riv gift certificates, or beer, or Paleo chocolate . . . -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] 650b Rim: Dyad or A23
David, ask your LBS if the wheels they build stand , meaning once they finished they will not need to be re-trued , as in likely never ! This to me is why I pay a dedicated professional , Rich is one and Joe Young another, but there are many . To me not ever needing to touch up a wheel is well worth any shipping charge ! Wheels are like frames, investments . Just as you'd expect a professional frame builder to deliver a perfect frame for you, wheels are expected to be no less .The old saying pay me now or pay even more later , applies 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
Vertically compliant, yet laterally stiff! On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 11:25:29 AM UTC-7, Philip Williamson wrote: Dude. Philip www.biketinker.com On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:33:35 AM UTC-7, Justin August wrote: Patrick- Your ride is here, in Crabln Fibre: http://theradavist.com/2015/06/introducing-the-salsa-cycles-cutthroat-tour-divide-bike/#1 -J -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] 650b Rim: Dyad or A23
I'm just thinking about buying the rim through the LBS and will be building the wheel myself. Not an expert wheelbuilder, but have built many, probably at least 50, wheels at this point. I'm confident in my skills. David Chicago On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 2:01:09 PM UTC-5, Garth wrote: David, ask your LBS if the wheels they build stand , meaning once they finished they will not need to be re-trued , as in likely never ! This to me is why I pay a dedicated professional , Rich is one and Joe Young another, but there are many . To me not ever needing to touch up a wheel is well worth any shipping charge ! Wheels are like frames, investments . Just as you'd expect a professional frame builder to deliver a perfect frame for you, wheels are expected to be no less .The old saying pay me now or pay even more later , applies 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
We use a Thule Apex 4 for my 54cm Hunqapillar my wife's 47cm Betty Foy on the back of our Honda CRV. Works well with Rivified bikes with fenders, racks baskets. John -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
I think that Jan does a great job of disclosing and being honest in reviews AND having a business that runs on a certain kind of biking introduces a bias.. which is why he should disclose! It is impossible to measure this bias, we all have to work out in our mind how much he is biased. In my mind, things like the assessment of clipless pedal and going up short hills involves a grain of salt because it is not as rigorous as some of his other testing. A really good test would be to randomize a bunch of different kinds of cyclists to clipless and flats for each ride over a long period of time involving lots of different kinds of cycling and look at the average speeds with and without. But who is going to conduct that? What outcome would matter the most? Speed differential up a hill? Over a week of commuting? Over a year? Love BQ and the Compass products, Edwin -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
On 06/12/2015 05:49 PM, Edwin W wrote: It's a relatively trivial issue, as far as I'm concerned. Now that has never limited a thread, has it? Well, that's certainly true. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Steve: Although I am someone who hasn't used non-retention pedals since 1970 (that's a wee bit hyperbolic but largely true) I have to weigh in for the other side and say that I, personally, have heard too much from riders with enough experience and certainly enough power output about the joys of non-retention, *and this for very competitive riding,* that I, personally, have to keep a bit of an open mind for the possibility that non-retention has real performance advantages. I mention again young Vaughn of local ss cyclocross fame and Bruce Boyson erstwhile of the Boblist. Bruce in particular is, from what I gathered, an experienced cyclist, not just a last-minute wonder with freakish power output despite self imposed obstacles. Once again, Bruce used to boast of leaving his clipped in, fully suspended, 3X10 peers in his single speed, rigid steel, flat-pedal dust. And he was 50 or so when I last heard him on the Boblist. I *know* that I gain torque from pulling up on the passive pedal while I torque down on the power pedal while pulling up hard on the bar. I am beginning to think, after trying the various puzzle pieces, that retentionless works best, even in performance situations, with low gearing, relatively high cadence, and relatively low torque. I may be wrong. So: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the ...Oh, wait: I, Patrick Moore, of ABQ, NM, pledge, promise, commit, and vow to try retentionless on a derailleur all rounder bike (Fargo, namely) for at least 200 miles of combined ABQ, NM pavement and sandy bosque riding, and to report my findings, results, conclusions, verdicts, pronouncements, and judgments to the list. Amen. Patrick Moore, who seriously proposes to do this, notwithstanding his otherwise intolerable flippancy, in ABQ, NM. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Steve Palincsar palin...@his.com wrote: Let's face it: those who like flat pedals - pedals without retention devices - aren't after performance gains that can be measured objectively. They're after comfort and convenience. Some riders can make them work quite effectively, and are happy to accept whatever objective performance deficits they may have. I have flat BMX pedals (albeit, without pins) on my shopper. I would never ride long distances on such a pedal: my feet slip off, and they often sit crooked on the pedals and I end up stepping on the crank arm or the chain stay. I'm very happy to have a pedal retention system take care of positioning my feet, while allowing me to lift my foot without worrying about it losing its place on the pedal or coming off entirely. I doubt the lifting of my feet substantially adds to power, as die hard advocates proclaim, but that's not the only reason to do it. I'm surprised this discussion has had so much staying power. It's a relatively trivial issue, as far as I'm concerned. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hunqapillar vs. Atlantis
here is what will said when i asked him Atlantis and Hunqapillar are both straight gauge (not a bad thing!) os x platinum .8mm in the main triangle. The fork is tougher on the Hunqa and the chainstays are thicker...That's about it as far as tubing. The geometries are different, but the tubing is basically the same. Oh and Hunq forks are made in Taiwan, the rest is made by Waterford, which accounts for the price difference between the two models. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] 7 speed Front Derailleur recommendations
yes, absolutely. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/700c/drive46.jpg Best front derailleur I've ever used is Shimano 600 EX On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:57:49 PM UTC-5, drew wrote: Does this mean I can run an 8 speed chain with a 7 speed cassette with no ill effect? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: 7 speed Front Derailleur recommendations
The FD on my Atlantis is just labeled Deore, no other letters. It shifts over at least 7 of 8 cogs without trimming in the big ring and IIRC covers all 8 in the middle ring. dougP On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 6:24:05 PM UTC-7, drew wrote: currently running a 7 speed chain/freewheel with the deore xt triple front derailleur that riv sells. when away from the middle, im getting an annoying amount of chain rub, since it is made for a narrower chain. so im looking for recommendations (buyable) for a triple front derailleur with a slightly wider cage. thanks! -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] 7 speed Front Derailleur recommendations
Yes, but it's not significantly skinnier than your old 7-speed chain. Look around for front derailers labeled 8-speed and you'll find what you need. I've tried 7/8-speed chains on 9-speed FDs and it's an endless headache. Sell that XT to a modern hipster skinny-chain person who can use that newfangled contraption. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 7:57:49 PM UTC-7, drew wrote: Does this mean I can run an 8 speed chain with a 7 speed cassette with no ill effect? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hub Area Rack with Swift MIni Short Stack Panniers (or other bags)?
I apologize Neil. I got this backasswards. I have the smaller of the two which is the Packer ... not the Packer Plus. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:31:59 PM UTC-7, hangtownmatt wrote: Neil, When most people think of Ortleib panniers they picture those big glossy plastic looking things people use on round-the-world tours. You may be, as I was, more interested in Ortleib's Sport Packer and/or Sport Packer Plus lineup. I went with the a pair of the Sport Packer Plus's. The outer surface has a cloth-like feel and appearance. I particularly like the brown but other colors are available. The basic difference between the Sport Packer and the Packer Plus is that the Plus is smaller and intended to be used as front panniers. I do not yet have a front rack so I've only used them as rear panniers for commuting purposes and I've only ever needed one. But it is very rare that I ever leave home without it. The Ortleib mounting system and shoulder strap can't be beat in my opinion. I paid $145 for the set at REI on sale. Here's a review that gives more information than you will probably ever need: http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/review-ortlieb-bike-packer-sport-packer-plus-bicycle-touring-panniers/ Hope this helps, Matt On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 12:36:50 PM UTC-7, Neil wrote: Interesting that the Ortlieb's work. I consider Ortlieb's overbuilt for my purpose, but it may be worth another look. On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 4:31:35 PM UTC-7, DS wrote: Anyone use the HAR with other front panniers, or specifically the mini short stacks from swift? Do they fit or did you need to do anything creative to make them work? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Spotted for FS: 59cm Rambouillet
This is a great bike shop. I bought my Surly there years ago. They had a beautiful Bleriot up on the wall at the time but it didn't fit me. They train at-risk teens to work in and run bike shops. Good people. John On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 1:42:37 PM UTC-7, Romel Jacinto wrote: I spotted a 59cm Rambouillet at a local LBS in San Francisco, Pedal Revolution http://www.pedalrevolution.org/. The bike isn't mine and I don't work at the shop, I just like the shop a lot and thought it was a bit of an unusual place to find a Rambouillet ready to go so I thought I'd pass the info on. Full details on Pedal Revolution's blog: https://pedalrevolutionblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/rivendell-rambouillet-pedal-revolution-refurbished-bike-update/ Romel San Francisco -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hub Area Rack with Swift MIni Short Stack Panniers (or other bags)?
Neil, When most people think of Ortleib panniers they picture those big glossy plastic looking things people use on round-the-world tours. You may be, as I was, more interested in Ortleib's Sport Packer and/or Sport Packer Plus lineup. I went with the a pair of the Sport Packer Plus's. The outer surface has a cloth-like feel and appearance. I particularly like the brown but other colors are available. The basic difference between the Sport Packer and the Packer Plus is that the Plus is smaller and intended to be used as front panniers. I do not yet have a front rack so I've only used them as rear panniers for commuting purposes and I've only ever needed one. But it is very rare that I ever leave home without it. The Ortleib mounting system and shoulder strap can't be beat in my opinion. I paid $145 for the set at REI on sale. Here's a review that gives more information than you will probably ever need: http://bicycletouringpro.com/blog/review-ortlieb-bike-packer-sport-packer-plus-bicycle-touring-panniers/ Hope this helps, Matt On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 12:36:50 PM UTC-7, Neil wrote: Interesting that the Ortlieb's work. I consider Ortlieb's overbuilt for my purpose, but it may be worth another look. On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 4:31:35 PM UTC-7, DS wrote: Anyone use the HAR with other front panniers, or specifically the mini short stacks from swift? Do they fit or did you need to do anything creative to make them work? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hunqapillar vs. Atlantis
Both of them do a lot of things and there is a lot of overlap between the two. It seems the Hunq is a bit more off-pavement oriented and the Atlantis a bit more paved road / touring, but the differences in that regard are subtle. Some geometry diffs (Hunqs have longer chainstays, for instance). Flip a coin? Save $300? Either one is a bike to ride a long time a long way. dougP On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 3:27:28 PM UTC-7, Kellie wrote: Both 26 wheels, both cantis, both fit a max. tire of 2.35 I'm my respective size. What are differences? Of course, beside the $300 for a frame. They even share the same build kits. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
The mascot of my high school was the might fighting lambkins, and they never let us gamble. Sigh. Grin. With abandon, Patrick On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 5:14:37 PM UTC-6, cyclot...@gmail.com wrote: Those are a lot of Ifs. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Patrick Moore bert...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: If Heaven smiles on me, and God willing, and things go well, and the earth continues blithely in its orbit, while lambkins gambol and larks sing: I will have a size M, original edition (non-susp-corrected) Fargo frameset for sale in about 2 months. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:39 PM, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com javascript: wrote: I visited my favorite LBS today and they had a Vaya and a Fargo on the floor! Two bikes I've admired and wondered about for a couple of years. I really wanted to test ride them but instead, I limited my test rides to the bikes I'm actually considering purchasing. I dropped off a frame for some work so I plan to ride the Fargo, at the least, when I pick it up on Monday. If I ever get heavily into dirt riding, a flat-bar Fargo might be a good choice for me. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 11:39:50 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: Ooooh, oooh, and with Class 5 Vibration Reduction System. I'm still using Class 1 -- fat soft tires. Actually, it sounds very interesting and I'd love to try one, but I wonder if it can handle fenders and loads the way I hope any Fargo replacement I buy will. I don't suppose that there is any real liability to carbon fiber in this sort of bike, where you're not trying to build a 2 lb frame? On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Justin August justin...@icloud.com wrote: Patrick- Your ride is here, in Crabln Fibre: http://theradavist.com/2015/06/introducing-the-salsa-cycles-cutthroat-tour-divide-bike/#1 -J -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. Chuang Tzu Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. Aristotle The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. Dante -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com javascript:. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. Chuang Tzu Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. Aristotle The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. Dante -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com javascript:. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com javascript:. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride. - Seth Vidal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop
[RBW] Re: Finished Sam Hillborne build
If anyone is looking to get rid of either a nice smallish handlebar bag (rack-mount but decaleur unnecessary, preferably) or Luxos U, I'd be interested in making an offer. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 7:00:42 PM UTC-6, Zach Duval wrote: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bTzNSe1ACTw/VXuAgtsSMWI/ACI/FbIrsgKZMYk/s1600/Facebook-20150612-065719.jpg -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hunqapillar vs. Atlantis
I think it depends on what you want for wheel base. The Atlantis is about 1 shorter: having slightly shorter chainstays and shorter top tube. Otherwise I think they are very much the same. I have an Atlantis. It's great. I wouldn't change anything. I haven't figured out what makes a longer wheelbase more desireable. I run rear panniers 100% of the time, never hit them with heels so the rear works fine. Maybe HunQ has some unknown mojo... but no bike will have a better head tube badge. The Atlantis badge is worth $2300. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 5:27:28 PM UTC-5, Kellie wrote: Both 26 wheels, both cantis, both fit a max. tire of 2.35 I'm my respective size. What are differences? Of course, beside the $300 for a frame. They even share the same build kits. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Finished Sam Hillborne build
Absolutely beautiful build. Hope you enjoy many miles on that wonderful bicycle. Don On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 6:00:42 PM UTC-7, Zach Duval wrote: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bTzNSe1ACTw/VXuAgtsSMWI/ACI/FbIrsgKZMYk/s1600/Facebook-20150612-065719.jpg -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: INVISIBLE LIFE PAINT GLOWS IN THE DARK
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. H. L. Mencken On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:45 PM, John jphillip...@icloud.com wrote: I already have a jacket from Britain that's even brighter. 100% reflective fabric. I look like a radioactive alien from a 1950's sci fi movie. But it doesn't protect me from people who don't believe in stopping for red lights or stop signs, nor yielding when making a left hand turn. They see and just don't care. John On Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 6:45:55 PM UTC-7, Jon Dukeman in the foothills of Colorado wrote: Not yet in the US. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/03/31/volvo_life_paint_invisible_safety_spray_paint_for_your_bike_that_glows_in.html -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Joy of Wrenching
Thanks for this, Chris. A good reminder. :) Aaron Young The Dalles, OR On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Patrick Moore bertin...@gmail.com wrote: Funny. I am an impatient perfectionist, and this has obvious psychological disadvantages. I want my bikes to be perfect; yet I hate the hassle of that sort of plodding methodicalness that is an essential requirement of technical perfection. Fixed gear setups help, but my satisfaction in mechanical perfection is always tainted by irritation at the innumerable obstacles posed by materiality. Hum. Today, work being slack, I undertook the rehabilitation of my next door neighbor's ancient and replaced gas grill (I live a spit from our bosque, and a charcoal grill, I fear, would lead to the conflagration of the century). Ashes and cinders; grease and oil; hardening and caking. This $100 gas grill had all of these in spades, and even though I decided against using caustic solvents, levying the power of scrapers, bushes, and garden trowel, I ended up with, literally, 2 gallons of carbonated, ex-organic fatty substances removed from the works. I fashioned a new flame disperser* from 2 sections of tin can**; replaced the side shelving with miscellaneous lumber; confected a new hatch handle; bought a canister of propane; and lo and behold, i am now ready to grill like any suburban peritus. Point being, that actually usable results that result from one's own material and imaginative intervention are, not only very pleasing, but in some way, of the very essence of pleasure. Aside: Matthew Crawford's *Shop Class as Soul Craft* is a very worthwhile meditation on the things raised by this thread. Crawford is a good, pre-Christian Aristotelian, btw. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Mark Reimer marknrei...@gmail.com wrote: So true. It seems I'm constantly changing something on my bikes. Fenders on, fenders off. Three pairs of tires in a month. I wonder how the bike would handle if I swapped out X/Y/Z... I do the same thing with old motorcycles. Seems I'm constantly elbows-deep into them. Last night in the shop, my Dad walks in and asks what I'd estimate the ratio is of the time I spend wrenching on them to riding. Clearly he didn't understand :) On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 1:27:17 PM UTC-5, hsmitham wrote: Chris, Glad you found some time to work on your Hilsen, I bet you can't wait to start building your freshly painted travel Hilsen! I can't wait to see that build. Just a winning color my friend!! Currently, I'm redoing both cockpits on my Hilsen Atlantis, just finished wrapping the Albastache bars on the Hilsen after installing a 8cm Dirt Drop Stem. I rode it for about two weeks to make sure this was the right decision. Today I'll be cleaning the Drive train. The Atlantis got a new 10cm Tallux stem for the win! Today it gets new bar end shifters and a rear dynamo light. I'm hoping that these changes will last a really long time and I can just focus on lots of riding. Other smaller projects on the distant horizon to tinker/wrench on. Oh and I'm installing a Mark's rack on the Wife's Betty. When my wife looks in on me tinkering on the bikes in the garage she smiles and declares your pretty content and she's right! Working on bikes I get my Zen on. Doug, I was wondering what all that noise was coming from yer Atlantis? Silent or smooth drive train is the bee's knees! 15K on your cassette well done Sir. Tail Winds, ~Hugh On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 8:34:49 AM UTC-7, Chris Chen wrote: Life has been crazy for a while, and I haven't had the chance to work on the bikes in a few months. Just remembering to lube the chain requires forethought. Tonight I finally started fixing my Hilsen with new brakes, saddle, and cockpit. It felt so good. Here's hoping you find time in your life for a little soul maintenance cc -- I want the kind of six pack you can't drink. -- Micah -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that
[RBW] Re: Finished Sam Hillborne build
Beautiful! With abandon, Patrick On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 7:00:42 PM UTC-6, Zach Duval wrote: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bTzNSe1ACTw/VXuAgtsSMWI/ACI/FbIrsgKZMYk/s1600/Facebook-20150612-065719.jpg -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Oregon Outback
Brian, Great writeup and photos of the OOB! Thank you. I love the stream crossing shots. Those are always fun, less the pinch flats of course. With abandon, Patrick -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Finished Sam Hillborne build
very nice. what kind of pump is that? On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 6:00:42 PM UTC-7, Zach Duval wrote: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bTzNSe1ACTw/VXuAgtsSMWI/ACI/FbIrsgKZMYk/s1600/Facebook-20150612-065719.jpg -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] 7 speed Front Derailleur recommendations
currently running a 7 speed chain/freewheel with the deore xt triple front derailleur that riv sells. when away from the middle, im getting an annoying amount of chain rub, since it is made for a narrower chain. so im looking for recommendations (buyable) for a triple front derailleur with a slightly wider cage. thanks! -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Oregon Outback
Really enjoyed your write-ups! You guys did it absolutely right. I had to chuckle when you described the conversation in the Silver Lake store of the hypothermic Lycra riders and the concern for their fate. I was one of those dorks and, if I had to do it all over again, I'd do it just like you did it! In fact, last year we did the route in the summer in four-ish days and it was a wonderful adventure. What stuck out to me was meeting all the great people in the most unexpected places. Great people. Beautiful, big country too. Thanks for taking the time to share, really good stuff! Tim C -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: FS: SA Saddle, Carradice Nelson LF, Soma Porteur Rack, Bridgestone 650b-ready Frameset
Bridgestone frame sold. These two left: Selle Anatomica Non-Slotted Saddle http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/dabanzer/Rivendell%20Redwood/7861405E-0139-4125-B3A0-EE2BA9968C4C_zpsvdpeillb.jpg - natural leather, black rivets rails, used very lightly - $95 shipped Soma Porteur Rack http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/dabanzer/Schwinn%20Impact/D732A128-A3FC-4AE0-8D01-C271E5EF3A24_zpsivushrp7.jpg - black, used, nice condition, I sold the bike it was on - $100 shipped On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 6:34:39 PM UTC-5, David Banzer wrote: GB bars sold. Saddle, rack, and frameset still available. David On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 2:34:50 PM UTC-5, David Banzer wrote: Lowered prices or changed shipping to lead to a lowered price on remaining stuff. Riv content: funds will go to buying 650b Dyad rims (sold exclusively by Riv it seems) for my Redwood Grand Bois Maes Parallel Bar https://www.compasscycle.com/shop/handlebars/maes-parallel-254-handlebars/ - 42cm - new - sticking with already taped up Nitto B132 rando bars - $95 shipped Selle Anatomica Non-Slotted Saddle http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/dabanzer/Rivendell%20Redwood/7861405E-0139-4125-B3A0-EE2BA9968C4C_zpsvdpeillb.jpg - natural leather, black rivets rails, used very lightly - $95 shipped Soma Porteur Rack http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/dabanzer/Schwinn%20Impact/D732A128-A3FC-4AE0-8D01-C271E5EF3A24_zpsivushrp7.jpg - black, used, nice condition, I sold the bike it was on - $100 shipped Bridgestone 500 Frameset http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/dabanzer/bicycles/0B893957-2317-4840-A14F-AF1E3A35F733_zpsrsk2e6ys.jpg (frame/fork/headset) - 62cm seattube c-t, will measure more - just ask - I bought this a week before I decided to try out my Redwood 650b experiment (which was a success) - originally came with 700c wheels with clearances for about 28mm tires - this is perfect for a 650b conversion, as I set it up briefly - takes recessed brakes, the Silver/Tektros have enough reach, will fit 38mm plus fenders for sure, possibly 42mm, has 2 bottle bosses, dt shifter bosses, and pump peg - would build up as a nice unloaded go-fast 650b road bike - $100 plus shipping On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 2:15:35 PM UTC-5, David Banzer wrote: As my storage space is overflowing with bike supplies, I can't buy new stuff until unneeded stuff gets sold. Shipping is as noted with each item. Paypal Personal on these items please. Local pickup is fine - if you can't pickup right away, kindly pay with Paypal to hold an item. David Chicago Selle Anatomica Non-Slotted Saddle http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/dabanzer/Rivendell%20Redwood/7861405E-0139-4125-B3A0-EE2BA9968C4C_zpsvdpeillb.jpg - natural leather, black rivets rails, used very lightly - $100 shipped Carradice Nelson Longflap Saddlebag http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/bop/5057220692.html - green, picked this up last week really just to get an idea for saddlebag design of my own, it's been used, passed around on this list a bit - $100 shipped Soma Porteur Rack http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/dabanzer/Schwinn%20Impact/D732A128-A3FC-4AE0-8D01-C271E5EF3A24_zpsivushrp7.jpg - black, used, nice condition, I sold the bike it was on - $100 I'll split shipping costs w/ buyer Bridgestone 500 Frameset http://i821.photobucket.com/albums/zz136/dabanzer/bicycles/0B893957-2317-4840-A14F-AF1E3A35F733_zpsrsk2e6ys.jpg (frame/fork/headset) - 62cm seattube c-t, will measure more - just ask - I bought this a week before I decided to try out my Redwood 650b experiment (which was a success) - originally came with 700c wheels with clearances for about 28mm tires - this is perfect for a 650b conversion, as I set it up briefly - takes recessed brakes, the Silver/Tektros have enough reach, will fit 38mm plus fenders for sure, possibly 42mm, has 2 bottle bosses, dt shifter bosses, and pump peg - would build up as a nice go-fast 650b road bike - $120 plus shipping -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
Toyota does not recommend hitch racks on my car so that leaves a roof rack for me. When I looked at buying a roof rack to accommodate a Betty Foy and Sam Hillborne with Fenders and Wald baskets the price was a real sticker shock for me. At well over a thousand dollars (Canadian), I decided to just use our Bromptons instead. They aren't as comfortable, in fact they are horrible but until I pony up for a roof rack, then they will have to do. And I wholly agree with Michael, the 1up website really needs some help. Still dreaming of a roof rack though. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hunqapillar vs. Atlantis
Well, which size are you considering? The Altantis comes in more sizes so you may be choosing between a hunq that fits bigger and an Atlantis that fits smaller. I considered this when I picked the 48cm hunq with a 54cm top tube over the 47cm Atlantis with a 52cm? top tube. Handlebar choice might also factor into that. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] 7 speed Front Derailleur recommendations
Does this mean I can run an 8 speed chain with a 7 speed cassette with no ill effect? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Finished Sam Hillborne build
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Re: [RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
Those are a lot of Ifs. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Patrick Moore bertin...@gmail.com wrote: If Heaven smiles on me, and God willing, and things go well, and the earth continues blithely in its orbit, while lambkins gambol and larks sing: I will have a size M, original edition (non-susp-corrected) Fargo frameset for sale in about 2 months. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:39 PM, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com wrote: I visited my favorite LBS today and they had a Vaya and a Fargo on the floor! Two bikes I've admired and wondered about for a couple of years. I really wanted to test ride them but instead, I limited my test rides to the bikes I'm actually considering purchasing. I dropped off a frame for some work so I plan to ride the Fargo, at the least, when I pick it up on Monday. If I ever get heavily into dirt riding, a flat-bar Fargo might be a good choice for me. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 11:39:50 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: Ooooh, oooh, and with Class 5 Vibration Reduction System. I'm still using Class 1 -- fat soft tires. Actually, it sounds very interesting and I'd love to try one, but I wonder if it can handle fenders and loads the way I hope any Fargo replacement I buy will. I don't suppose that there is any real liability to carbon fiber in this sort of bike, where you're not trying to build a 2 lb frame? On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Justin August justin...@icloud.com wrote: Patrick- Your ride is here, in Crabln Fibre: http://theradavist.com/2015/06/introducing-the-salsa-cycles-cutthroat-tour-divide-bike/#1 -J -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. Chuang Tzu Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. Aristotle The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. Chuang Tzu Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. Aristotle The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride. - Seth Vidal -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] 7 speed Front Derailleur recommendations
On 06/12/2015 09:24 PM, drew wrote: currently running a 7 speed chain/freewheel with the deore xt triple front derailleur that riv sells. when away from the middle, im getting an annoying amount of chain rub, since it is made for a narrower chain. so im looking for recommendations (buyable) for a triple front derailleur with a slightly wider cage. thanks! Will this problem solve itself when your chain wears out and you replace it with the so-called 7/8 speed chain (formerly known as 8-speed) that is now sold for use as a 7 speed chain? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Nuf said! On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote: I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what other riders use. Flat, clipped, I don’t really care, and I don’t proselytize others to my point of view. That being said, I’ll just note that you only have to watch a cyclist with one leg to know that clipless pedals allow you to pull up on the upstroke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJHuwkJfp-4 --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com www.campyonly.com campyonlyguy.blogspot.com On Jun 12, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Mark Parker mparker...@gmail.com wrote: I thought the whole debate was that for unracers flat pedals are fine. From what I have read of his exploits, it doesn't surprise me that Jan gains some efficiency from being attached to the pedal. I don't think I do. I certainly fall into the unracer camp and will keep on doing what I have done since I was 5 - just ride. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Bill Gibson Tempe, Arizona, 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Hahaha... made me On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 8:02:47 AM UTC-7, Rod Holland wrote: Anne, Sounds like the guy forgot to unclip his mouth from his Y chromosome... That causes any number of accidents... rod On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 10:09:13 AM UTC-4, Anne Paulson wrote: Is this mansplaining, or does this happen to you, too: I was out riding my Surly Krampus on some fire roads that are, to be honest, too steep for me. So I was doing a lot of walking. But that's OK, I don't mind walking. At the top, I came upon three guys who had ridden up the other side, the easy way. We got to chatting, and, as often happened, they asked me about my bike. I have flats on the bike. And then one of the guys took it upon himself to tell me I should start riding clipless. He explained that clipless would make my pedalling stronger, yadda, yadda. I answered politely, but I was furious. It should have been obvious to him that my bike was carefully chosen: it has 3 tires, a belt drive, a dynamo and a Rohloff hub. This is not a bike that one can can buy off the shop floor; it's a custom bike, and one that he should have realized I chose after careful consideration. Why, then, did he assume that a rider who had ridden for 40 years, and who had carefully chosen all the parts of her bike, would be ignorant of clipless pedals, and that somehow flats got on my bike by accident? Don't be a jerk. Don't assume that riders who make different choices than you do don't know what they're doing. And don't assume that women automatically need the benefit of your superior knowledge. On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Garth gart...@gmail.com wrote: good read : http://www.bikejames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Flat-Pedal-Revolution-Manifesto.pdf from here : http://www.bikejames.com/strength/the-flat-pedal-revolution-manifesto-how-to-improve-your-riding-with-flat-pedals/ You don't have to change your mind and thinking nor can you truly . You can and do however . . . Understand :) -- 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Anne Paulson It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
Patrick- Your ride is here, in Crabln Fibre: http://theradavist.com/2015/06/introducing-the-salsa-cycles-cutthroat-tour-divide-bike/#1 -J -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
Ooooh, oooh, and with Class 5 Vibration Reduction System. I'm still using Class 1 -- fat soft tires. Actually, it sounds very interesting and I'd love to try one, but I wonder if it can handle fenders and loads the way I hope any Fargo replacement I buy will. I don't suppose that there is any real liability to carbon fiber in this sort of bike, where you're not trying to build a 2 lb frame? On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Justin August justin.aug...@icloud.com wrote: Patrick- Your ride is here, in Crabln Fibre: http://theradavist.com/2015/06/introducing-the-salsa-cycles-cutthroat-tour-divide-bike/#1 -J -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
It's really a question of torque, not power. Like an old 20 hp tractor that can climb a wall (if it is using clipless pedals). On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Benz, Sunnyvale, CA benzouy...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a little late to this discussion, but can you please reconcile your claim about the lack of ability to put out power with BMX sprinting? These guys generate in excess of 1000 watts and don't have clipless pedals. They seem to be able to put down plenty of watts with very modest body weight. On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 11:07:49 AM UTC-7, Jan Heine wrote: I am sorry that there was a misperception that we did a detailed study of pedal retention. We tested a few pedals, both with and without retention, and the results were interesting. Whether a more rigorous study is needed when the results are so clear is another matter. To cite an even more extreme case: Do we also need a rigorous study to prove that a bike with flat tires rolls slower? I think it's pretty clear that during normal riding, retention makes little difference. Grant P. is right when he says that you don't pull up much, if at all. However, during short efforts on rolling terrain, it's obvious that you can pull up, and I did realize how much I do pull up when that ability was taken away. On the same bike and the same course, I suddenly needed to shift on the smallest hills, whereas usually, I just roll over them. And getting out of the saddle had no benefit, since I couldn't lever the bike with my lower foot as a fixed point. Suddenly, my power output was limited by my body weight... In the article, I compared it to opening the lid of a jar. If you hold the jar with one hand and the lid with the other, you can apply way more force than if you have your friend hold the jar while you turn the lid. Considering this, I am not sure I want to put our limited resources into a more sophisticated study. Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly Seattle WA USA www.bikequarterly.com -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
only with a p/u truck, but the Softride tailgate pad works great with fender bikes and mixtes http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/bike/aaP3290001.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/bike/aPB39.jpg in the second photo, hauling four bikes, including my buddy's Santana tandem, though for it we added transverse straps across the front of the bed, grabbing the rack lugs on the seat stays -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Clayton, I don't think your head should have been bitten off. It was a reasonable interrogatory. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
On 06/11/2015 10:14 PM, 'clayton bailey' via RBW Owners Bunch wrote: Does he not own Rene Herse? And sell his own randoneur frames? I thought he did. H. You are wrong. He owns the Rene Herse name, but licenses it to Mike Kone of Boulder Bicycles for the Herse bicycle line. Clayton On Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:55 PM, Steve Palincsar palin...@his.com wrote: On 06/11/2015 11:38 AM, 'Clayton' via RBW Owners Bunch wrote (speaking of Jan Heine): He seemed infer that judder in plastic bikes is incurable, but I think *he was just putting on a sales spin for his bikes.* What bikes would those be? Jan doesn't sell bikes at all. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
It's totally normal to be skeptical when a magazine also has a sister company that sells bicycle components... However, the reason Compass exists is because we at Bicycle Quarterly wanted to put our research into practice and make the parts that we want to ride on our own bikes. We cannot tell others what they should manufacture (and believe me, we have tried!), so we had to do it ourselves. It's that simple. The conflict of interest is best dealt with by being honest. So when the handlebar bag of a test bike that was held on with a Grand Bois decaleur we sell flew off during a fast gravel descent, of course, we reported it. When we found that the Grand Bois Ourson tires didn't perform appreciably better than the Panaracer Col de la Vie that used the same mold, we said so. Sure, we lost some sales at Compass, but the credibility of Bicycle Quarterly is far more important. And the Ourson tires were discontinued based on our research, and we replaced them with our own Compass Loup Loup Pass tires, which perform much better. And Compass Bicycles sells the MKS platform pedals and half-clips that I found to offer less optimal performance on short hills... If I was trying to boost sales, I would have said that the half-clips offer the same performance as clipless or full toeclips, and have quoted the Youtube study... To suspect that we talk about fork judder on carbon cyclocross forks only to boost sales of Rene Herse bikes is a bit far-fetched. For full disclosure, we do get a small licensing fee from Boulder Bicycles for every Rene Herse bike sold, but so few of these bikes are being made that it's totally insignificant, on par of what we make from selling Maxi-Car replacement axles. These are projects we do because we want to do them, not because they make money. We also do sell the wonderful Kaisei Toei Special fork blades, but again, I doubt many are sold to riders who'd otherwise buy a production carbon fork... The carbon fork issue (brake judder with cantilever brakes and a high-mounted cable hanger) has been reported in many magazines, but I believe we are the first who figured out what really is happening. It is simply a mismatch between very stout fork legs and a flexible steerer. Instead of getting the brake dive in the fork legs as the weight transfers forward during braking, you get flex in the steerer, which affects the tension of the brake cable, setting up a rhythmic oscillation. It can happen with any fork material, but it's predominant with carbon forks. I am sorry if that wasn't explained clearly enough in the article. Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly www.bikequarterly.com -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Jan, I apologize. I did not mean to offend anyone, and was totally mistaken about your connection to Rene Herse. Your connection to them in my mind, somehow became your brand, that you sold. However I stand by my brake comments. I had intense brake judder on my Specialized Crux, and it was cured by toe-in (regardless of the cause). Other forks may not have the same results, and using different brake pads could change things too. I use long Mt. bike Kool Stop salmon pads with great results. Cantilever brakes are all basically the same. They all need toe in, regardless of the fork material. You do a great job on your magazine and products and I can't blame anyone for marketing their products the best way they see fit.Clayton Bailey On Friday, June 12, 2015 7:31 AM, Jan Heine hein...@earthlink.net wrote: It's totally normal to be skeptical when a magazine also has a sister company that sells bicycle components... However, the reason Compass exists is because we at Bicycle Quarterly wanted to put our research into practice and make the parts that we want to ride on our own bikes. We cannot tell others what they should manufacture (and believe me, we have tried!), so we had to do it ourselves. It's that simple. The conflict of interest is best dealt with by being honest. So when the handlebar bag of a test bike that was held on with a Grand Bois decaleur we sell flew off during a fast gravel descent, of course, we reported it. When we found that the Grand Bois Ourson tires didn't perform appreciably better than the Panaracer Col de la Vie that used the same mold, we said so. Sure, we lost some sales at Compass, but the credibility of Bicycle Quarterly is far more important. And the Ourson tires were discontinued based on our research, and we replaced them with our own Compass Loup Loup Pass tires, which perform much better. And Compass Bicycles sells the MKS platform pedals and half-clips that I found to offer less optimal performance on short hills... If I was trying to boost sales, I would have said that the half-clips offer the same performance as clipless or full toeclips, and have quoted the Youtube study... To suspect that we talk about fork judder on carbon cyclocross forks only to boost sales of Rene Herse bikes is a bit far-fetched. For full disclosure, we do get a small licensing fee from Boulder Bicycles for every Rene Herse bike sold, but so few of these bikes are being made that it's totally insignificant, on par of what we make from selling Maxi-Car replacement axles. These are projects we do because we want to do them, not because they make money. We also do sell the wonderful Kaisei Toei Special fork blades, but again, I doubt many are sold to riders who'd otherwise buy a production carbon fork... The carbon fork issue (brake judder with cantilever brakes and a high-mounted cable hanger) has been reported in many magazines, but I believe we are the first who figured out what really is happening. It is simply a mismatch between very stout fork legs and a flexible steerer. Instead of getting the brake dive in the fork legs as the weight transfers forward during braking, you get flex in the steerer, which affects the tension of the brake cable, setting up a rhythmic oscillation. It can happen with any fork material, but it's predominant with carbon forks. I am sorry if that wasn't explained clearly enough in the article. Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly www.bikequarterly.com -- 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/blwwAcVLtLQ/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
That's about the only thing I miss about having a pick'm'up truck, it's great for hauling bikes around. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Ron Mc bulldog...@gmail.com wrote: only with a p/u truck, but the Softride tailgate pad works great with fender bikes and mixtes http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/bike/aaP3290001.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/bike/aPB39.jpg in the second photo, hauling four bikes, including my buddy's Santana tandem, though for it we added transverse straps across the front of the bed, grabbing the rack lugs on the seat stays -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Car Racks Rivs
Michael, be sure to check out 1up USA. I cannot stress how much I love their hitch rack. Working in the industry, I've sold, installed, and used every rack under the sun, and this one is by far the best I've ever seen. It's also made in the USA. I don't run fenders so I can't comment on that compatibility, but the only issues I could imagine would be protecting them from the clamping arms. https://www.1upusa.com/bicycleracks.html -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Report on: (1) clamp on rear rack under load; (2) merino under heat
I wore my U60 yesterday running then working outside at 80° and 88% humidity. I sweated profusely, but that was not the wool, it was the activity. The shirt was completely comfortable, and I was more at ease knowing that it would dry quickly and not stink. On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 3:56:15 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: 1) I finally used the $50 clamp on rack (modified to accept Ortlieb Packer Sports) for a real load today. First, 5 dirt miles (+ 2 paved) to Sprouts -- no loosening or clanking over the bumps. Then, 2 X 2 litre cans of olive oil, 2 large bags grapes, 2 lb tomatoes, 6 lb of fish -- easily 20 lb at least; this on pavement for ~14 miles. The rack held up well, didn't slip or turn, and only the rather slim legs to keep panniers from spokes flexed a bit to let the back of the pannier clunk occasionally against the fender struts. 2). High 80s and (for us) high humidity at 30%+: the Ibex merino was fine in the sense that I didn't even think about it. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten * *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
Philip, He doesn't divulge much about his geometry on-line but from what I can see about his Dirt Bomb , the BB is too high, HTA too shallow and tubing and fork too stiff. His dirt bomb is more MTB like than my Bantam which is a road bike version of a Dirt Bomb. I've seen a number of his bikes closeup as a local shop down here ( Pacific Coast Cycles) is a dealer and the owner has 3 or 4 Soulcrafts and they all follow the same approach. Lots of people like his bikes and he appears to be an excellent craftsman. I like quicker steering, flexier frames and lower BB's. And low trail geometry. IMO you want a bike that fits fatter tires and rides like your Quickbeam I would look elsewhere. Talk to John Fitzgerald at Fitz up there in your neighborhood. ~mike On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 5:31:39 PM UTC-7, Philip Williamson wrote: What are the points of divergence between the way you like a bike to ride and the way Soulcraft likes a bike to ride? I most like the way my Quickbeam rides, so I'm interested if the ride of a Soulcraft is somehow very different. I'd go ride one, but I'm not in the market to buy one, so I don't want to waste anyone's time. Maybe I'll do it anyway. Philip www.biketinker.com On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 4:44:25 PM UTC-7, Mike Schiller wrote: one reason I'd never have Soulcraft build a bike for me. I don't want a bike that rides like he likes... I want a bike that rides like I like. His Dirt Bombs max out out at 45 mm tires anyway.. so Patrick is out of luck. My Bantam is my version, more road bike than Soulcraft's Dirtbomb. He has built the Holy Roller model with dropbars and which will fit 55's with canti's so that is another option. I know a few people that have one. ~mike Carlsbad On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 10:54:36 AM UTC-7, iamkeith wrote: Here's one more option you might look at. Patrick. The Dirt Bomb by Soulcraft. http://www.soulcraftbikes.com/frames.php?frame_id=7 One of, if not *the* first semi-standard bike of this type available, outside of Rivendell. Semi-standard because they're built-to-order to your own personal measurements, rather than pre-built and sitting on a shelf. Not exactly custom either because, from what I understand, Shawn still insists on defining the rest of the geometry and tubing specs himself - not unlike the process you might get with a custom Rivendell. Lots of available options though, INCLUDING disc brakes at no extra cost, and rack-mounts galore. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: First trip to riv
As most riders are I'm very conscious of bike thieves. When I pulled up I didn't see the bike rack I just saw all the bikes leaned against the building. It made me pause for a second but then I figured when in rome and hey my bike's the least expensive one here. I've never left a bike unlocked out of sprinting distance. Spotted the rack when i got back from my test ride.Living dangerously no helmet unlocked bike! On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 9:42:11 PM UTC-7, Daniel D. wrote: Gotta say I was impressed. great experience. Will was super nice and helpful.Test rode a Sam, nice ride liked the handling and it felt more svelte than my randonee. Glad I dropped by on a whim. Sam might be in my future, a frame at least. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] WTT 62cm Hunq for 58cm
Just wanted to throw this out there: I have a 62cm Hunq (grey/bean color; purchased from Erik J), but I'd prefer some more stand over since I've been riding more sketchy single track. Anyone have a 58 that they'd like to like to trade for a 62cm? The frame is excellent, a few scraps, but no dents or dings. It's just a wee bit too big for the riding I'm doing. Thanks! Sam -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
I thought the whole debate was that for unracers flat pedals are fine. From what I have read of his exploits, it doesn't surprise me that Jan gains some efficiency from being attached to the pedal. I don't think I do. I certainly fall into the unracer camp and will keep on doing what I have done since I was 5 - just ride. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: 63cm Canti-Romulus part out
$700 + shipping for frame/fork/hs sans BB/brakes/fenders Parts will be offered once the frameset is sold; priority on all parts goes to the purchaser of the frameset On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 4:24:35 PM UTC-4, lukeheller wrote: I'd like $775 for f/f/hs, BB, fenders, and brakes. If you would like any of the other bits, we can negotiate. Front rack, VO pass hunter I believe, integrated decauleur, $45. All bits included. Soma Hwy One bars, 46cm + your choice of either 90mm technomic stem or 12mm nitto Pearl stem $60 Or add $20 for both stems. I'd prefer to keep my seatpost and cranks bc I plan to use those for another build. Pics http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/LukeHeller/library/ -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: WTT 62cm Hunq for 58cm
I ride a 62cm Hunqa on all kinds of stuff and have a PBH of 90cm without issue ever in the ?? years I've had it. The need for smaller frame to ride trails is highly exaggerated in my experience. May be worth playing with it with that in mind? With abandon, Patrick On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:34:50 AM UTC-6, Sam Wanless wrote: Just wanted to throw this out there: I have a 62cm Hunq (grey/bean color; purchased from Erik J), but I'd prefer some more stand over since I've been riding more sketchy single track. Anyone have a 58 that they'd like to like to trade for a 62cm? The frame is excellent, a few scraps, but no dents or dings. It's just a wee bit too big for the riding I'm doing. Thanks! Sam -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: What have I done?
Grew up in Iowa and did my first RAGBRAI just after college in 1980. One big rolling party. I got used to cold showers at the end of the day. It was FUN. TPetersen On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 9:14:49 AM UTC-5, Rusty Click wrote: Any list members riding RAGBRAI this year? They (RAGBRAI) have called my bluff, and informed me that I have gotten in via the lottery. Now, I'm hoping that my knees can keep me, and my Sam Hillborne, rolling! So far, I'm guardedly optimistic about this. NSAIDS, electrolytes, and pie will have to keep me going. Any advice, or warnings out there from previous riders? Rusty Click Pittsburgh, PA -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
I have a Saris that works great. Rock solid. Made in the US. It's a two-biker, and the two I haul most frequently both have Albas. I mount them tail to head. Not sure that's required. It's just what happens. Mine is not the top clamp version, it's the less expensive Freedom 2 model with zip straps. No fender problems. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 7:52:05 AM UTC-5, Michael Hechmer wrote: I have been riding bikes with fenders for about 15 years now and have only found one downside - they often don't play well with racks, neither locking racks nor car racks. We have a Saris TBones Hitch rack on our Prius and I found it worked well with both my Saluki or Ram and Pat's Sequoia. However I have never liked having the weight of the bikes up that high with the additional stress it puts on the rack and hitch. Now Pat has switched to riding a Betty with Albatross bars and I am always struggling to make the two bikes fit. It is doable as a two person job. I bought and tried one of these parallel TT but it made the situation worse. It's a challenge to get the her handle bars my front rackto clear. Likewise my bars her rear rack. Since both bikes have racks fenders, they are fairly heavy as bike go today but still within the racks spec. Still the vertical support flexes some under load. So... I have been looking at a new hitch racks, especially ones where the bikes sit in a well and get clamped around the tire. Does anyone have experience with these to share? Do you have to put the top clamp around the tire, or is it OK to put it over the fender? The Yakima rack installation instructions specifically say to put the top hook within 2 of the fork, which clearly rules out using it with any top rack, like my Mark's mini. The Saris instructions don't say that is necessary, but the video on their web site shows them setting it up that way. Finally, how close together are the wells; is there sufficient space for Albatross bars? Michael -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what other riders use. Flat, clipped, I don’t really care, and I don’t proselytize others to my point of view. That being said, I’ll just note that you only have to watch a cyclist with one leg to know that clipless pedals allow you to pull up on the upstroke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJHuwkJfp-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJHuwkJfp-4 --Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com www.campyonly.com campyonlyguy.blogspot.com On Jun 12, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Mark Parker mparker...@gmail.com wrote: I thought the whole debate was that for unracers flat pedals are fine. From what I have read of his exploits, it doesn't surprise me that Jan gains some efficiency from being attached to the pedal. I don't think I do. I certainly fall into the unracer camp and will keep on doing what I have done since I was 5 - just ride. -- 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 mailto:rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
It's totally normal to be skeptical when a magazine also has a sister company that sells bicycle components... However, the reason Compass exists is because we at Bicycle Quarterly wanted to put our research into practice and make the parts that we want to ride on our own bikes. We cannot tell others what they should manufacture (and believe me, we have tried!), so we had to do it ourselves. It's that simple. Thank you Jan. I have always found your candor about your products benefits and limitations refreshing. And this from someone who prefers half clips matched to White pedals - performance be darned! -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Joy of Wrenching
Life has been crazy for a while, and I haven't had the chance to work on the bikes in a few months. Just remembering to lube the chain requires forethought. Tonight I finally started fixing my Hilsen with new brakes, saddle, and cockpit. It felt so good. Here's hoping you find time in your life for a little soul maintenance cc -- I want the kind of six pack you can't drink. -- Micah -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Just imagine how I made the real Patrick feel when I joined! Grin. With abandon, Patrick (who sometimes likes to look like the real Patrick by adding a long description to my signature just to mess with him. Grin.) On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 10:59:26 AM UTC-6, Clayton.sf wrote: Now we have two claytons! Will have to change my handle ;-) Clayton Scott SF, CA -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Joy of Wrenching
Chris: Like you, I enjoy working on my bike. Having some free time lately, I did some long overdue maintenance on my Atlantis. The drivetrain has been a bit noisy for a long while, and rear shifting so-so. But what the heck, I haven't done much the last couple of years so it got new chainrings, cassette (15k on the old one!), chain, BB, hubs freehub serviced. It takes some time but it's quality time. Amazing how silent the drive train is now, and how crisply it shifts. Life is good. dougP On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 8:34:49 AM UTC-7, Chris Chen wrote: Life has been crazy for a while, and I haven't had the chance to work on the bikes in a few months. Just remembering to lube the chain requires forethought. Tonight I finally started fixing my Hilsen with new brakes, saddle, and cockpit. It felt so good. Here's hoping you find time in your life for a little soul maintenance cc -- I want the kind of six pack you can't drink. -- Micah -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Now we have two claytons! Will have to change my handle ;-) Clayton Scott SF, CA -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Car Racks Rivs
Michael, Pretty sure you've already tried this but I'll forge ahead anyway. My wife and I both have Riv's with Albatross bars outfitted with racks, bags and baskets, using any rack is a challenge. I've used a number of them over the years. Currently on my Miata I use a Saris Freedom hitch rack https://www.saris.com/product/freedom-2 ( tray type with central mast that attaches to the down tube) And on our truck with camper I have a swing away hitch rack ( the type that suspends the bike from the top tube) to have access to the rear. http://www.yakima.com/shop/bike/hitch/swingdaddy An arm adapter is required on this one with the Mixte. In both cases I have to loosen the stem and rotate the handle bars and either lower or raise the seat to clear each other. I make sure to mark seat and handlebar height/position obviously. I used to have a Thule hitch rack like the one you're considering. The stabilizing arm ideally makes contact with the top of the front tire. I suppose you could cheat it a bit forward to clear the leading edge of the fender but that wouldn't be optimal. https://www.thule.com/en-us/us/products/carriers-and-racks/bike-carriers/hitch-mounted-bike-carriers/thule-t2-2-bike-916xtr-_-916xtr In one of the pictures in the above link you can see where the stabilizing arm makes contact with the front tire. I sold mine when I sold our other truck and bought the Miata. The Saris is much lighter weight. All have pluses and minuses. Hope I was of some help. Tail Winds, ~Hugh On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 5:52:05 AM UTC-7, Michael Hechmer wrote: I have been riding bikes with fenders for about 15 years now and have only found one downside - they often don't play well with racks, neither locking racks nor car racks. We have a Saris TBones Hitch rack on our Prius and I found it worked well with both my Saluki or Ram and Pat's Sequoia. However I have never liked having the weight of the bikes up that high with the additional stress it puts on the rack and hitch. Now Pat has switched to riding a Betty with Albatross bars and I am always struggling to make the two bikes fit. It is doable as a two person job. I bought and tried one of these parallel TT but it made the situation worse. It's a challenge to get the her handle bars my front rackto clear. Likewise my bars her rear rack. Since both bikes have racks fenders, they are fairly heavy as bike go today but still within the racks spec. Still the vertical support flexes some under load. So... I have been looking at a new hitch racks, especially ones where the bikes sit in a well and get clamped around the tire. Does anyone have experience with these to share? Do you have to put the top clamp around the tire, or is it OK to put it over the fender? The Yakima rack installation instructions specifically say to put the top hook within 2 of the fork, which clearly rules out using it with any top rack, like my Mark's mini. The Saris instructions don't say that is necessary, but the video on their web site shows them setting it up that way. Finally, how close together are the wells; is there sufficient space for Albatross bars? Michael -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: [BOB] FS: Coho Frame/Fork/HS + Extras (Reduced Prices)
I don't know if Joe has sold this but I can vouch for what an excellent rando bike the Coho is. I have a similar one and it's been absolutely great. Understated but all the right moves. Don't make Joe resort to eBay! Joe you might try posting on the randon list as well. On Jun 9, 2015 4:23 PM, Joe Bartoe jbar...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I am going to reduce the price for the Coho before I resort to drastic measures (...Ebay): I'm offering the F/F/HS + Extras: Price of Frame and fork plus Chris King HS, Decaleur, Front Rack, Berthoud bag and Mafac Racer Brakes- $1100 + $100 shipping (Continental US). The price with full build is here: Coho Randoneusse - 61cm C-T with 58cm C-C top tube. Built up with Ultegra Compact crankset, Ultegra Front Derailleur, Deore XT rear derailleur, 11-34 Shimano Cassette and Dura Ace 10 sp barend shifters. Brakes are Mafac Racers and levers are the TRP RRL SL (silver drilled levers with gum hoods). Seatpost is Nitto and stem is Cinelli with Nitto dream bars and black Brooks leather tape. Wheels are polished silver Velocity A23 (both 32h) laced to White Industries T11 rear hub and Shutter Precision PV8 front hub (generator hub). Tires are Compass 700x32C. The frame comes with custom matching decaleur and front rack (built by Coho). Would like to get $2800 shipped (continental US) for full build (no saddle or pedals included). If you'd like the frame module plus some of the parts, let's chat. Pics here: http://thesaltycyclist.blogspot.com/2015/06/fs-coho-randonneuse.html Joe Joe Bartoe Synaptic Cycles Bicycle Rentals, Inc. email: j...@synapticcycles.com website: www.synapticcycles.com Twitter: @synapticcycles phone: 949-374-6079 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups internet-bob group. To post to this group, send email to internet-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to internet-bob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, group rules and how to contact the moderation team, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/internet-bob?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups internet-bob group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to internet-bob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to internet-...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/internet-bob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/internet-bob/SNT148-W488F268B16B5F8155D6F05AABE0%40phx.gbl https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/internet-bob/SNT148-W488F268B16B5F8155D6F05AABE0%40phx.gbl?utm_medium=emailutm_source=footer . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Does he not own Rene Herse? And sell his own randoneur frames? I thought he did. H. Well, you are going to have to H a little bit longer and harder. While Jan owns the name and sells components with it, Rene Herse branded randonneur frames are made and sold by Mike Kone and Mark Nobilette (who used to and may still make some of the Riv forks by the way). Jan does not charge Mike to use the name for the bicycles. Definitely no bikes for sale on the Compass site. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
But its cool to bite Jan's head off for something he does not do. On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 8:49:06 AM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: Clayton, I don't think your head should have been bitten off. It was a reasonable interrogatory. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] Re: BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Clayton, No apologies necessary. You are right that a lot of brake judder can be cured with toe-in adjustment. However, on these carbon forks, even the most extreme toe-in doesn't solve the problem - we tried everything (including toe-out, different pads, etc.). On our first long ride on that particular bike, we actually stopped multiple times adjusting the brakes (with several professional bike mechanics on the team, everybody felt that _they_ could cure the problem, even if the others couldn't). I am glad that your bike doesn't display the brake judder any longer, because it's annoying, and not something I'd gladly live with on a daily basis. Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 7:50:46 AM UTC-7, Clayton wrote: Jan, I apologize. I did not mean to offend anyone, and was totally mistaken about your connection to Rene Herse. Your connection to them in my mind, somehow became your brand, that you sold. However I stand by my brake comments. I had intense brake judder on my Specialized Crux, and it was cured by toe-in (regardless of the cause). Other forks may not have the same results, and using different brake pads could change things too. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Hub Area Rack with Swift MIni Short Stack Panniers (or other bags)?
Alright, for anyone else who is interested, I called Rivendell and they said that the Swift bags would work if you got 'creative', I didn't get any further clarification on what that meant. Talked to Swift, they said that it wouldn't work due to 1. the bottom hook not having anything to keep it in place (though they recommended zip tying a tube to the rack to hold it in place as a fix) and 2. the top hook wouldn't fit on the area near the mount, the fork is in the way. I think I read something about someone redoing the spacing to make that work. Anyone have experience with other panniers on the HAR? I want to be able to remove it quickly and like having a strap on top to carry it with. On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 6:54:45 PM UTC-7, DS wrote: Scratch that, I meant the Jr. Ranger Pannier. On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 4:31:35 PM UTC-7, DS wrote: Anyone use the HAR with other front panniers, or specifically the mini short stacks from swift? Do they fit or did you need to do anything creative to make them work? -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] BQ to publish study of pedal retention usefulness in Summer issue
Flat, clipped, I don’t really care, and I don’t proselytize others to my point of view. Curiously, the only time I've had people preach to me is the one time I would least expect - chance encounters with other tour cyclists while on tour myself. Not sure if it is a function of crazy guys and gals on a bike losing their social reserve after long days alone on the saddle or something else. After I assure I've done plenty of tours cleatless but half clipped the conversation usually trends elsewhere - like to the all important, 'there is farm with a pack of marauding loose dogs I can expect to pass the next day' conversations. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[RBW] Re: Advice and suggestions for custom dirt/pavement allrounder?
Dude. Philip www.biketinker.com On Friday, June 12, 2015 at 9:33:35 AM UTC-7, Justin August wrote: Patrick- Your ride is here, in Crabln Fibre: http://theradavist.com/2015/06/introducing-the-salsa-cycles-cutthroat-tour-divide-bike/#1 -J -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] 650b Rim: Dyad or A23
Go for the A23. I just got a set built by Rich for my Sam which is mostly used in the same fashion with a tool bag in the rear and a small bag upfront. I run the 650x42 babyshoe pass tires on them and they fit great in the rim. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
