There are a few shops in Seattle that carry 650b stuff. I've seen a
few beautiful custom 650b'ers around town, several Bleriots, and an
occasional Kogwell. I think if more people would be willing to try
them they'd be sold on the ride. Today I took my Bleriot, shod with
40mm Schwalbe Marathons,
Dave, The Herbie is probably a bit heavy for touring and one reason I
didn't order it unseen from the interweb. My reason for waning a stand
in the first place is that I do allot of solo touring. It is therefor
hard to keep an eye on the bike if I park it against a wall and such.
For city cycling
Thanks, Pete.
Yes, it certainly seems that the Hebie 605 center stand is a boat
anchor. Hebie makes the lighter, model 690 center stands and I've got
emails out to a couple of places regarding those.
Even though I tour with a partner, we still find stands to be
extremely useful. I can't foresee
Anyone know why Riv eliminated the fork braze ons for front racks on
the green QB? Did they re-apply them on the Silver? I wish the braze-
ons were there on the greenie...
colin cummings
amarillo, tx
On Aug 22, 8:10 pm, Cycletex clifwrightpho...@yahoo.com wrote:
That's the one. Love it!
on 8/23/09 8:35 AM, cpatrickcummings at colinthehip...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know why Riv eliminated the fork braze ons for front racks on
the green QB? Did they re-apply them on the Silver? I wish the braze-
ons were there on the greenie...
Green was the first model. They _may_ have
Saw this this morning. NIce color picture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/business/smallbusiness/23venture.html?_r=1ref=business
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Recall that Rivendell started because Bridgestone pulled the plug on
bicycles. Grant was faced with the same dilemma (history does
repeat!) and fortunately for all of us chose the entrepenurial
route.
dougP
On Aug 23, 10:07 am, John Geiger john.gei...@gmail.com wrote:
Saw this this morning.
On Aug 22, 11:00 pm, rob markwardt robmar...@hotmail.com wrote:
There are a few shops in Seattle that carry 650b stuff. I've seen a
few beautiful custom 650b'ers around town, several Bleriots, and an
occasional Kogwell. I think if more people would be willing to try
them they'd be sold on
My Riv is the Atlantis and it can be made noodly by improper weight
placement. Another culprit is over-loading cheap racks. After
changing to a Nitto big rear rack years ago, no problems in that
area. On a recent tour, I had the weirdest shimmy at 10-15 MPH that
took a couple of days to run
I wonder if that bike belongs to anyone on this list. The picture
appears to have been taken in Dolores Park in SF.
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After being sucked into the 650B vortex by Phil, I have divested myself of all
700c wheels and now count (3) 650Bs and a lobe 26 in the garage. In fact, I
just built a set of wheels using some NOS uniglide hubs and Synergy rims. I
like 'em.
From: Phil B
Seems like I saw about 5 QBs when in San Francisco in June. Good
article.
On Aug 23, 1:42 pm, Mike mjawn...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder if that bike belongs to anyone on this list. The picture
appears to have been taken in Dolores Park in SF.
I have a new 52cm QB that comes with Silver sidepull brakes. When I
apply the rear brake, I get a heavy vibration throughout the frame/
seat.
I have
- checked the brakes installation and it seems fine.
- cleaned the rim
- checked toe-in
Thoughts? Anyone else run into this with a small frame?
I've decided I'm more of a bag person than a basket person so I'm
selling my Paul Flatbed. These are very attractive, but do not have
the load capacity of a CETMA. This will carry your case of Sierra
Nevada but not your full keg. A picture of it on my Quickbeam is at
I'm with Bruce! Almost an all 650B fleet now. In fact, my only
non-650b bikes have been locked up 400 miles away in my ex's shed for
over 2 years now: 20 wheeled 'bent, 27 fixie, and 700c Shula. I'll
probably keep the bent and Shula, but the fixie will be replaced by a
650b model. (already
What do you all find to be the advantages of 650B over 700C? Are they
more comfortable?
On Aug 23, 9:01 pm, Ryan Watson rswat...@nyx.net wrote:
I'm with Bruce! Almost an all 650B fleet now. In fact, my only
non-650b bikes have been locked up 400 miles away in my ex's shed for
over 2
John
Here are a few possibilities in the order I'd consider them:
Pull the whole caliper off the bike and inspect the frame mount and
brake caliper for cracks and play. Compare the rear caliper to the
front caliper. Any parts out of order or missing?
Check the pad/rim alignment to make sure
on 8/23/09 4:22 PM, johnb at jbust...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a new 52cm QB that comes with Silver sidepull brakes. When I
apply the rear brake, I get a heavy vibration throughout the frame/
seat.
I have
- checked the brakes installation and it seems fine.
- cleaned the rim
- checked
I have followed this thread with interest.
I have two click-stands; they are light, but time consuming enought
to use that I only end up using them when setting up the bike for an
extended period (like overnight). They work well with a loaded
touring bike.
I have thought about the twin leg
What frequency is the vibration? Is is a once per wheel revolution
type? or faster than that?
If it is a once per revolution vibration, you may have something
hitting the brake/brake pad or a step at the rim joint.
Build up or contamination on the rim can cause brakes to vibrate.
I have no
Doug brings up a good point.
The most flexible thing between the pannier and the road is often/
sometimes the rack.
When riding from RBW back to my (then) home in LA on an All-Rounder, I
had a shimmy between 18-24 mph. More weight in the front panniers and
the shimmy speed dropped, less weight
Yea - that's a nice one. The new ones have been particularly good - I
imagine new visitors will get some great riding ideas from 'em.
On Aug 23, 7:08 pm, CycloFiend cyclofi...@earthlink.net wrote:
It just seems like every time I go onto the Rivendell Bicycle Works site of
late, there's an
It just seems like every time I go onto the Rivendell Bicycle Works site of
late, there's an even more enjoyable image on the main page. But, this one
really caught my eye this evening.
http://tinyurl.com/rbw-bikesky
- J
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I like the photo of the t.v. showing some (vintage?) racing. It had a nice
feel to it.
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Esteban proto...@gmail.com wrote:
Yea - that's a nice one. The new ones have been particularly good - I
imagine new visitors will get some great riding ideas from 'em.
It was taken at sunrise on an S24O about a month ago. THanks for
liking it.
For photography types:
Voigtlander Bessa R, Voigtlander 35/2.5 lens, Kodak Portra 400NC flm,
camera hand-held while I was on by back, on B for 45 seconds. It was
one of about ten I took, guessing at the shutter speed,
I strive for quantity over quality, myself!
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM, grant grant...@gmail.com wrote:
Those were taken during the 1976 Olympics in--well, was it Montreal?
Right off the television set, which you can still see in some of
them. Olympus OM-1 50/1.4, Kodak print film of
Greetings All,
I am looking to sell the stock wheelset from the Quickbeam I
purchased directly from Rivendell in May of this year. I had the
wheels on for just a couple weeks and rode definitely under 100 miles
on them. I've since replaced them with Phil/Mavic A719 custom wheels,
so I just
Nice shot Grant my first thought was hmmm must do S24O and then
wow what a nice pic
And you are correct the Olympics were in Montreal in '76.
On Aug 23, 8:49 pm, David Estes cyclotour...@gmail.com wrote:
I strive for quantity over quality, myself!
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM, grant
I keep hoping Grant will put up a gallery page on the Rivendell
website. All the S24O photos are great.
--mike
On Aug 23, 9:33 pm, RoadieRyan rya...@hotmail.com wrote:
Nice shot Grant my first thought was hmmm must do S24O and then
wow what a nice pic
And you are correct the Olympics were
Hi Micah.
Tektro R538 are probably your best bet, not too expensive and are designed
to open as widely as possible, maximizing the odds of getting fatter tires
through without any monkey buisiness. Another thing to think about is that
fat tires on relatively narrow rims make this worse, so if
I want to know who's wearing the brown wingtips?
On Aug 23, 9:41 pm, Mike mjawn...@gmail.com wrote:
I keep hoping Grant will put up a gallery page on the Rivendell
website. All the S24O photos are great.
--mike
On Aug 23, 9:33 pm, RoadieRyan rya...@hotmail.com wrote:
Nice shot Grant
I remember the 76 Olympics...I was a lad of 18 and attended them
while working with Youth with a Mission.
I had quite a different perspective on the games and Montreal.
Interesting that I also owned a OM-1 but then again as many photo
buffs, I've used everything from Hasselblad to Nikon. I
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