Chauncey picked up the new bike this (actually, yesterday) morning to re-do the fork and reinforce the rear rack. A 41 mm Pasela has ample room under the 45 mm fender in the rear, but while it fits under the fender in front, there is only about 5 mm of clearance, so he will lengthen the fork legs to gain an additional 10 mm, and swap out the fork-crown fender mount with projecting boss with another that puts the threaded boss inside the steerer, so that the fender can be butted up tight against the underside of the crown. That should gain at least 3 mm. He said he can add more rake to the fork to preserve the wonderful (Riv-like, in fact, since it's Riv clone) handling.
Grant would not have built me a custom with the features I wanted -- 42s with fenders, narrow Q, and 118 mm OL rear spacing, with braze-ones for Sturmey Archer trigger shifter, extra-long but thin plate dropouts (Chauncey cut his own), and internal light wire routing, with custom f and r racks. So I consider this a non-Riv tribute to Riv. Once I get the bike back, I'll look into buying some RH Naches Pass tires. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsDoA3DiVqScFKZ03Nsfs9JcFeH3nQk-Jx8gSV8gXC4FQ%40mail.gmail.com.
