Received a compliment yesterday on my just rebuilt sage green SamH. Stopped
at a local bakery and a customer walking out kept staring at the bike (not
at me) and finally said "what a beautiful bike". She continued to stare and
shook her head in disbelief. She then said it looked custom. I
I don't own a Riv but my wife and I had ventured over to a local Cajun
restaurant for lunch and seeing there was a bike shop next door, I had to
stroll over after eating. It was a slow day so the owner and I started
chatting and somehow Rivendell came up and he said "One of my customers has
a
I just got my first compliment on my Roadini after less than 10 rides on
it. I saw a young man looking my way from an adjoining bike path. He rode
over and caught up with me to say "Nice bike". I've had the same type of
experience while riding my other two steel bikes. In one case I was riding
On a ride with my new-to-me orange Ram, I encountered two episodes of this,
on a 20-mile ride on Minuteman Commuter Bikeway:
May I photograph your bicycle? (this really happened...)
Interestingly, they photographer wasn't keying off "Riv" per se, but
thought it was a beautiful steel bike
Also, being one who lives in a very car-centric part of the U.S., bicycle
compliments here are rare as "hen's teeth". Instagram has been, for me, a
nice source of encouragement in, not only my Rivs, but other bikes I own
and, upon which, I have put my personal touches.
Steve Butcher aka
Around here in this little corner of O-Hi-O there are few cyclists. I once
saw another cyclist about a month I go, thought I do see banana peels on
the side of the road more often, maybe once every 2-3 weeks. I guess
tossing the peel into the grass must just be too laborious for the poor
It's car-centric here, and it's rare I get a compliment that isn't "nice beach
cruiser" or "How do you get up the hill with no gears?" in regards to my Betty
Foy. But yesterday I had her in for repairs and the owner of the shop was
complimenting me on my bike and telling me what a pleasure it
Runner I passed as I stumped up the trail on my Hunqabeam: “Nice bike! What is
it?” “A Rivendell.” Without missing a beat she said “I figured it was Petersen,
with a top tube like that.”
With abandon,
Patrick
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Many years ago, I did a MS ride on Martha’s Vinyard on my then new All’rounder.
The entire field of riders were on mid to upper level aluminum or carbon Treks,
Specializeds, etc. (This was ‘04 or so right in the middle of the Lance
hysteria years.) As we were pulling in to one of the rest
Sadly, I missed a chance to "nice bike" someone last weekend :-( Someone
riding the other way, I noticed the canvas looking handlebar bag first,
then what looked like moustache bars and that the rider may have been
female(?) but then we'd passed each other. I gotta be quicker on the
uptake
my favorite call out was a couple of summers ago. I was riding from Bellingham
to Seattle
and was depleted in Snohomish. I bought a pint of HaganDasz and went to sit
down off the street by the river.
A rather overweight fellow and his girlfriend were up by the wall quite a ways
away staring a
I have had mixed comments:
“Nice bike!” Pedestrian
“That is a really nice bike” about Bosco Bleriot from Trek LBS employee
“Centerpulls are antiquated/obsolete technology”. Another LBS wrencher. They
were Pauls.
“I love your bike” rider passing me on a century ride.
“Got a six pack in there?”,
I got one recently from a mailman doing his rounds.
Bill
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Camping out in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona this weekend.
Riding around mostly. Onion Saddle. Massai Point. I was the only camper in
Pinery Canyon. Sunday morning I hear an unexpected sound coming up the
road. A bike tourer. Fully loaded. On a Trek 520. He rides by my camp and
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, October 2, 2018 6:44 AM
Subject: [RBW] Re: Heard my first "Hey, nice Riv!" today. Felt chuffed
"Chuffed?" I must have slipped even more generations behind on slang than I
thought.
On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 10:18:57 AM UTC-5, LeRoy wrote:
I've only had my Clem Smith
Ummm... I'd be careful about handing out "chuffs"! ;-)
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From: BSWP
To: RBW Owners Bunch
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 3:44 AM
Subject: [RBW] Re: Heard my first "Hey, nice Riv!" today. Felt chuffed
I ride
"Chuffed?" I must have slipped even more generations behind on slang than
I thought.
On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 10:18:57 AM UTC-5, LeRoy wrote:
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> I've only had my Clem Smith Jr since late spring of this year and have put
> about 750 miles on it. Rivendells of any sort are thin on the
My favorite time was when I was riding my Hunq home from work in Brooklyn
and a guy pulled up next to me at a stop light riding a custom Johnny
Coast, the first Coast I had seen in the wild!
My favorite time I saw another Riv while I wasn't riding one was when I was
driving out of Zion
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> I have never seen another Rivendell in the wild. The only Rivendells that
>> I have seen are the ones I own and the ones at World Headquarters.
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Laing
Cocoa, FL
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I ride in Berkeley and all of the East Bay... it's not uncommon to get
chuffed several times each day. And as well, to hand out chuffs to fellow
Riv riders I see. We are part of a not-so-secret not-so-subterranean
society, that recognizes and embraces, through use, ownership, and
promotion,
sightings are rare here in baltimore, too--my first recognition was a bit
less formal, but definitely smile-inducing: i, atop my 67cm homer,
approached a cross-country-ready atlantis and gave two friendly rings of my
brass bell. he struck his dinger, and we two strangers made melodious bell
It is encouraging to hear a call like that. There is a difference between
folks who see the bike as simply "nice", and those who seem to understand,
appreciate, and value the same things we do. I think it is more than
validation. I think it is "connection".
Hey, nice Riv, LeRoy!
Chris
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