Yes, I've never been up there but this should be fun. I'll be at Half Moon
Bay Hike n Bike on Sunday if anyone wants to get lost in the hills with
me...last we seen 'em they was ridin into the hills on their
Rivendells
-Ray
On Friday, August 30, 2013 9:11:00 AM UTC-7, Andrew Letton wrote:
I might be able to make this. I have the week off and am heading down to
Big Sur. I'll be riding into Santa Cruz from Half Moon Bay on Monday. New
Brighton sounds good or somewhere along the coast.
-Ray
On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:29:32 PM UTC-7, Andrew Letton wrote:
Hello Friends,
route.
Regards,
Ray
On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 1:22:19 PM UTC-7, Way Rebb wrote:
Hello,
Has anyone been down around the devil's slide area since the tunnel
opened? I might be taking the Hillborne down to HMB or SC next week for a
few days. It'd be nice to see the old coast road
Hello,
Has anyone been down around the devil's slide area since the tunnel opened?
I might be taking the Hillborne down to HMB or SC next week for a few
days. It'd be nice to see the old coast road with no traffic!
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I found some YouTube videos. H1 north bound doesn't look to bad. The road
is normal, meaning no narrower than many other sections of the coast, and
the tunnel bypasses the worst of it. South bound the tunnel starts at the
top of the climb out of Pacifica with...ta da...concrete barriers and
Cool, your headed through my stomping grounds…Livermore. Wish I
could make it but getting out on weekend are hard enough. Mines Road
is a good ride, lots of bicycle traffic on the weekends and not flat,
okay compared to Diablo, Hamilton or the coast it's flat. You need
to get out to Tracy and
Yes dynamo, great idea, keep the sextant app on the phone charged when
I hit the water :)
On Dec 17, 2:04 am, IanA attew...@gmail.com wrote:
With integrated dynamo wiring and a sail?
On Sunday, December 16, 2012 11:56:30 PM UTC-7, Way Rebb wrote:
I'm thinking of a Sam Hunqa-Pilson
Now those are the rides I like. Three/Four hour ride through the
local hills, along the trails...take off in the morning and have the
afternoon free for something else. I try to get out one or two weeks
during the summer and go somewhere camping or visiting but those
little rides are a nice break
I'm thinking of a Sam Hunqa-Pilson that converts into a kayak and I
can float down the river. I'm not sure it's possible :(
On Dec 16, 3:58 pm, cbone97 cbon...@gmail.com wrote:
A bit of fun since surely I'm not the only one who's been prompted to
enter a $300 order this month and tempted to
Awww, I walked. Normally I ride everywhere, even three blocks to the
store but today for some reason I walked to the poll. Maybe I'll ride
by and take a re-enactment photo later today. :)
On Nov 6, 11:03 am, Amit Singh asd...@gmail.com wrote:
Got a photo of your Riv at the poll? Send a link
Yes, yes, yes!
Baxters was a daily listen for about 20 years as background yoga
music, Surrealistic Pillow Baxters is the only music on my phone.
Best RBW Owners Bunch thread in years! Now work in a little Zappa...
Regards,
Ray
On Oct 23, 9:13 pm, lungimsam john11.2...@gmail.com wrote:
Are
I've had my Grip Kings few years now. Early on the pedals started
clicking. I began prying the plastic dust cap off to pack in some
grease but then I though of something. Instead of taking them apart
took an old credit card and squeegee'd some grease in from the othere
side. I squeegee'd and
Nice! Those marshmallows have a mind of their own.
On Jul 16, 8:44 pm, Manuel Acosta manueljohnaco...@hotmail.com
wrote:
Great trip with great friends, new and old. Great talking to professional
bike packer and Rivendell employee, Miles. We did a lot of advertising
around the Marin Headlands
I have a bunch of bamboo rayon. At the time they were just Shirts On
Sale but they are good on bikes. Lately I've taken to wearing white
billowy dress type shirts. People look at me a little differently,
maybe they think I'm a Mormon.
On Jul 16, 2:45 pm, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com
the mystery road?
I worked out something via Google earth a couple of years ago but
never got to try it out. I've since found Google's aerial views can
be out of date.
Thx,
dougP
On Jun 27, 9:46 pm, Way Rebb grayc...@mac.com wrote:
Hello,
I took a little vacation last week. Spent nine
Manny,
Yes, it was a surprise to see you. I would have stopped a little
longer but you looked busy.
-Ray
On Jun 28, 6:40 am, Manuel Acosta manueljohnaco...@hotmail.com
wrote:
Looks like a great trip. Funny that I ran into you on the pier on your way
back.
-Manny
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Saving google maps and I don't get along too good. I will try it
again and post a link if I ever figure it out.
-Ray
On Jun 28, 5:33 am, Addison Wilhite addisonwilh...@gmail.com wrote:
That looks like a great trip. Did you map it on google and save it so you
could share a link?
Hello,
I took a little vacation last week. Spent nine days hike'n and bike'n
the California State Parks, meandering my way from Livermore down to
Big Sur and back up the coast.
The first day was rough: Livermore to Santa Cruz. Blazingly hot by
the time I hit the hills outside of Los Gatos,
That was my first free weekend in quite a while. Very good day. Thank
you for the great ride Manny. Here are a few more pictures. I left
the camera at home so I used the phone.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/7182102849/in/set-72157630116192320/
Regards,
Ray
On Jun 11, 9:14 pm, Manuel
That sounds fun. I can make an afternoon ride tomorrow. Anywhere is
fine with me, even 25 laps around Crissy Fields. I will wear my good
shirt!
On Jun 7, 12:22 pm, Manuel Acosta manueljohnaco...@hotmail.com
wrote:
Looks like the probably of two ride it is.
Morning ride to Fred's for french
Nice setup! Lots of little details to ohh and ahh over. Did you make
the bracket for the light?
I've been thinking about a second Hillborne myself (maybe an
Atlantis).. A second bike to keep big racks on, ready to go, while
the current one keeps its pure roadie, but not clubby, set up.
The last single speed I had was as a kid and his StingRay. Getting a
bike with gears was a revelation. I remember actually riding, not
pushing the bike, up 73rd in Oakland with a big smile on my face. I
doubt, in fact I know, I'd never get a single speed. I can get the
same effect by not
I just shortened my stem from 10 to 8cm. Doesn't sound like much but
it's like a new bike, everything just fell into place. So much
better. I had the bars raised to the limit but it always felt like I
was reaching for the positions, a little different that stretching.
During rides I started
Nobody know this but the word is actually pronounced ROAD. Es and Os
are silent after Ds in creatively spelled previously Angloized Spanish
words. rotare eadem rodear. Just a bit of trivia I made up :)
On Apr 5, 4:34 pm, Aaron Young 1ce...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking its ROAD-eo, because of
Hillborne is a complete dog going to work. It wants to head to the
hills, the creek, down random streets it's never been down before, the
ocean 40 miles away...anywhere but work! Takes all my bike whispering
skills to keep it pointed in the right direction. Now, going home is
a different story.
I've been thinking about going from 46 to 44. I just swapped out a
10cm stem for an 8 on the Hillborne and its like a new bike. I think
a little narrower bar would bring it all together. I've also been
checking out the Compass Randonneur bars but they seem to be 38.5 or
something. They look
...Campy from derailed on... Auto spell correction attacks again!
Campy Front Derailleur.
On Feb 12, 11:52 pm, Way Rebb grayc...@mac.com wrote:
If you post pics on Flickr you ought to blur out the
plastic...err...carbon bits but Campy is fine. I have a Campy from
derailed on the Hillborne
If you post pics on Flickr you ought to blur out the
plastic...err...carbon bits but Campy is fine. I have a Campy from
derailed on the Hillborne and that thing shifts fast!
On Feb 11, 10:45 pm, Eric ericwolfo...@gmail.com wrote:
Would I be breaking any RBW aesthetic rules by throwing on a
They provide protection in the sense I didn't know something was amiss
until the tire actually went flat. Maybe if I was really in-tune with
my tire pressure I'd have noticed my bi-weekly fill up needed a little
more air than usual. Patching is easy though. I think as long as I
use air in my
You can also add a few more lights in back. I ride in the dark quite a
bit and I have three tail lights, all battery powered: An old Vista
Light 5 LEd mounted to the rack, one on the fender and the Soma Bullet
light down where the rack attaches to the stay. I also have one of
the reflective
Wow, the stuff sure sold quickly. I saw the e-mail friday but was on
the road for my annual winter tour and didn't wan to use the iPhone
to buy stuff. Everything I would have bought was gone except some
Olive old style pants. I wear them around the offices/cubes and un-
velcro'd they look
I have something called 511 bike mapper in my links list:
http://511contracosta.org/bike/#
I've used it to find rides but never set them up.
Regards,
Ray
On Jan 2, 10:54 am, TSW tsesun...@gmail.com wrote:
hi all,
Sorry if this has been discussed already- is there a place where
people have
My favorite comment was ..wow; look at those welds!.
-Ray
On Sep 30, 8:58 am, Allan in Portland allan_f...@aracnet.com wrote:
Literally heard that last night in regards to my still-new-to-me AHH. Look,
I know the tires are a little shabby, and the saddle doesn't fit the
aesthetic (but it does
The blue tape is rim liner. I took off the old liner, cleaned up the
rim a bit and put on the new. Besides being a really nice shade of
blue I figured it's all engineered to work together (and engineers
don't do goofy things).
I even looked around the net a bit before I bought them which led to
Oops, I meant to put a smily thing or an LOL after the engineer
comment. :)
On Sep 23, 6:43 pm, cyclotourist cyclotour...@gmail.com wrote:
Engineers don't do goofy things, but then they hand it off to the marketing
department...
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Way Rebb grayc
I've had a rough few months with flats from goatheads, after no flats
for over a year. They squeak in though the sidewall of the Supremes.
I just put on a pair of Foss, rim liners and all, not for flat
protection, but ease of patching. I retired several well patched
tubes and carry no spare. I
I liked the music, typical 70s film music that nobody ever bought or
listened but Hollywood loved to use for cheesy movies.
From the bike fit section I tried the forearm (saddle to handle bars)
measure on the Hillborne and came up way short, about four inches,
barely reached the stem.
Those goat heads are a mean plant. I think Marathon Pluses with about
4 or 5 Mr Tuffies inside and the rest filled with cement would give a
person a fighting chance. Even then it might be iffy.
-Ray
On Aug 31, 5:26 pm, jinxed hbcl...@yahoo.com wrote:
There are 5 bicycles hanging in the
Hillborne spoke.
With nary a drop of uncertainty in his voice Hillborne thundered,
Change the flippin' chain you FOOL. So I did and all was well,
right?
Nay! Hillborne thrashed and sputtered and ground to a halt, gleefully
reveling in my dumbfounded pout. You will WALK to the LBS and buy a
new
Now I feel bad.
Since I gave the 84 Lotus away I have the Hillborne and..uh..er...a 27
inch wheel, a couple of tires, 3 or 4 old brake pads, some ball
bearings and tools.
That Hillborne is probably the most useful thing I own but my mission
in the next 10 years: amass one or two more bikes,
I'm thinking it's the the Rohloff equipped lugged Pedersen type bike
everyone's been wildly speculating about.
On Jun 17, 4:55 pm, Pondero cj.spin...@gmail.com wrote:
Let the speculation begin...
http://www.rivbike.com/blogs/knothole_post/365
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Nice video, you're getting good at putting these together. I enjoyed
watching. That ride would be a three, maybe four, day trip for me. :)
Regards,
Ray
On May 23, 11:19 am, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote:
Saw several other riders on Rivs on this year's Davis Double, including
another
I've used the Supremes (35s) for 1.5 years now. With the other tires
the first flat got a nice laugh from the folks at work: Don't you
love bikes? HaHa, by the third flat they weren't laughing anymore:
g, is this gonna be a habit?!. Put on Supremes and voila...no
more flats on the commute.
I've never understood why lay away is more appealing than saving up
for something.
Of course in my case I never actually buy what I save up for. For
example I recently saved up for another Hillborne. I figured I could
leave the big racks, bags, baskets on and be ready for vacations
(tours), trip
Nice to see a Hillborne group. I added a few photos. Some didn't show
up but those were the first few photos I uploaded to Flickr and don't
seem to show up anywhere except my own little space. Maybe I have to
re-upload those.
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Wow this thread has jumped all over the place but back to cars and
bikes...
What I find irritating are the too polite motorists. They will wave
me through a 4 way stop when it is their turn to go. They will stop
and wave me across three other lanes of busy traffic as if everyone
will stop
Some of us use bikes as a primary means of transportation.
Transportation involved going to places you may not really want to get
to (jury duty, dentist appointments, etc) with varying levels of being
late.I don't believe transportation is chosen on the fun factor,
cars are just the default.
Bravo! Well done.
On Jan 16, 6:25 pm, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote:
From yesterday's steel/leather/wool/friction-shifting ride on the CA coast:
http://campyonlyguy.blogspot.com/
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Great photo set. You talked me into it too, I'm trying a basket.
I am on my 4th front bag (a little loafer this time) and although they
are all excellent well made bags they all come with their own
problems: can't mount lights to handle bar, can't use pockets due to
shifter cables, hands tangled
I am planning to clean the drive train regularly. I cleaned it
Saturday and it was a mess. Huge chunks of gloppy stuff flying off
the cassette, caked on stuff scrapped off the derailleur cogs etc.
Deep down I knew the cassette was shinny silver and not dull black but
I didn't realize how shinny.
Zip tied duct tape mud flaps half way through their second winter
(okay a No Cal winter):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/5289538488/
A good rugged bike deserves good rugged mud flaps. Of course if this
was a custom or a Betty I'd use Monster Tape, but duct tape is plenty
good for the
I agree with Dave Minyard. I have (had) a similar bend in the back.
Certain Yoga postures/stretches, particularly stretching and keeping
the hamstrings loose and pliable, really help with bending at the
pelvis. I keep my back straight when riding, not rigidly straight,
but I bend forward at the
Nicely done! Is that a 56?
I've seriously thought about a double TT orange to go with my single
TT first gen green one. One for really heavy duty stuff, one other
for regular heavy duty stuff and one with VBreaks so I can tell them
apart. I bet you have fun and get a lot of use out of that
On Nov 7, 9:26 pm, Seth Vidal skvi...@gmail.com wrote:
Dunno if everyone saw this but my significant other pointed it out to me:
http://lovelybike.blogspot.com/2010/11/born-for-hills-review-of-riven...
Pretty seriously glowing review.
I really liked that review, and not just about the
I had the Campagne bag mounted to the front rack and thought it worked
great. I mounted it two different ways. The first was just slide the
leather thing over the steel thing and use a toe strap to hold it to
the rack. I was able to stuffed lots of things inside. I think it is
mounted that way
I went out there for two Irish straps and walked out with a new Brooks
saddle. Before that I walked out with a Big Rack. Before that was
something else. Strange thing is they didn't try to sell me any of
it.
-Ray
On Oct 13, 6:19 am, Ginz theg...@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like a good trip. I
Those Hunquapillars are nice looking bikes. The diag-a-tube looks
very natural. If only I was a little bigger.
-Ray
On Oct 11, 6:17 pm, Seth Vidal skvi...@gmail.com wrote:
I think he's on the list but I just saw this hunquapillar tonight:
Hello,
I just finished up a great seven day out-n-back from SF to Monterey.
It was supposed to be a nine day loop heading one day east then south
through the California central valley with a cut over to the coast and
head up through Monterey to SF. Day one was way to hot so I bailed on
that
On Sep 19, 8:49 pm, doug peterson dougpn...@cox.net wrote:
Ray:
Congrats on a great trip thanks for the pix. Meeting all those
fellow travelers shows you don't have to be on the road for a month to
have a great time. Everyone touring on a bike seems to have their own
ideas on equipment,
On Sep 19, 9:02 pm, Allan in Portland allan_f...@aracnet.com wrote:
What does the kick stand weigh?
Maybe they were trying to figure out why you weren't using it? :-) I
saw it being used in exactly two pictures, and those seemed to be the
same scene just different angles.
Congrats on the
On Sep 19, 9:39 pm, Anne Paulson anne.paul...@gmail.com wrote:
Those considering a similar route should skip Highway 92 (which is
indeed horrible at some points) and venture a bit south to Tunitas
Creek/Kings Mountain (beautiful, steep on Tunitas side) or go a little
further south to Highway
I've been mildly bummed that I haven't taken my epic 10 year journey
around the earth on a solid steel three speed from the fifties.
When these moments of misery wash over me I think back on all the
great little rides I do manage to squeak in. Five hours here, eight
hours there plus the normal
Michael,
The tape is cloth tape, silver, with three or four coats of garnet
shellac applied over a year ago. It is getting a nice patina now.
The HB bag felt different for about the first 10 minutes. Now I don't
even notice. I used the VO bag mounted to the front rack for quite a
while. That
Just curious of how others treat their
rivendells? Are they really used to their full potential? Or locked
away shameless in the garage because of their face value?
-Manny
My Hillborne certainly isn't a beater. A beater implies I have a
special occasion bike around. Fortunately since the
See many non-parallel double top tubes Out In The World?
snip
I saw many weirdly shaped aluminum bikes but the few steel non-
parallel bikes I saw were the rickshaw variety. I was interesting
being countries where bicycle racks overflow with bicycles. All the
bikes had a well used look,
It's the rear brake cable guide that will divide us! :)
I saw quite a few double top tubes in Asia (Flying Pigeon, Raleigh),
they don't see that unusual anymore. I bet you have a lot of fun with
that one. Wonder how I can swing a new Hillborne? (but, but, but,
it's over a year old...and the
I don't see anyhing missing that isn't on my SH. I do see a welded on
rear cable guide in the back. That is something different.
On Jun 30, 8:28 am, Thomas Lynn Skean thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net
wrote:
Okay, it's a contest. There's no prize for being first, no shame in
never finishing. A no
It's nice you can nickname your bike Louise.
I tried to call my bike Suzie for a while but knowing it was already
a Sam Hillborne put a squash on that idea. Then I thought Sam really
meant Samantha but that was way to many syllables: sa-man-tha-hill-
borne. So I gave up and now I just call it
Double top tubes seem fairly common here in Singapore. I've see quite
a few. Many are old and made by Raleigh. They all seem to have seen
years of use. People just ride them to get where they are going.
Rivendell may have a more world view of bikes. I like the way they
look and seem to take a
Thank you all for the kind words.
It was fun putting the post together. I'm not a real big internet
gabber but I've been following this groups adventures for a couple of
months and figured what the heck. I think the bike is about
finished. Very reliable low maintenance transportation which is
Hello,
You folks seem like a fun group who might enjoy this. I thought I'd
share some pics of my old Sam Hillborne…but first a story…no wait,
the pics, skip the story:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/sets/72157623480171652/
Way back in 1982 or '83 I purchased a brand spanking new Lotus
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