I rode Bridgestones back in the day, starting with my first new mountain
bike, an MB-4. My local shop was a Bridgestone dealer so I saw all of
models come through over the years. I eventually purchased an RB-2 as well
and pined away over the XO-1. I loved the Bridgestone catalogs and
Back in the day of rec.bicycles.tech, mid-90s, I saw a note about Grant
starting his own bike business. I'd like everything he'd done at
Bridgestone, had a beloved RB-1, and received one of his first catalogs.
Loved every bit of it. I'd been racing road and mountain bikes, and had
become
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> I found Sheldon Brown in reading bike forums after starting cycling on a
> Fuji Touring bike around 2000. He talked about the Romulus in glowing terms
> znd I wanted one, but it did not come in my size. The French Blue order of
> the very similar Rambouillet came out around 2005 and had 2
In 2017, I was getting ready to do my first tour. And I was reading nearly
everything my library had related to bicycles in preparation. That's when I
found Grant's "Just Ride" book. I had never heard of Rivendell before then.
That book really clicked with me. So much so, that I put off my tour
Looking for a mountain bike in 1989ish, I discovered Bridgestone and
Grant's marketing philosophy. Both of which clicked with me. So, I ended up
with an MB2 because it was purple and almost as good as the MB1.
I rediscovered Grant and Rivendell thru IBOB, and fully reveled in the
Kool-Aid.
It was 1996 and we bought our first Apple computer and got an internet
connection. I had finally decided to get back to riding a road bike. I
had tried a Trek hybrid but wanted more. I went online, a new thing for me
and found a bicycle site. I posted about my bad back and desire for a road
I bought my 1st Rivendell because I thought it was a good deal vs. the
classic lugged steel frames available at the time. People seemed to want a
small fortune for old used lugged steel frames and Rivendell was offering a
discount on some Sam Hillbornes that had been delivered without the cream
I bought a second hand Bombadil in 2011 as a replacement for my '83
Stumpjumper Sport that was both too short in frame height and length. I
sold the Stumpy and still have the Bombadil today.
I bought a Susie at first sale, though as of today I'm asking "what was I
thinking ?". . oh the
I had been reading bike groups and one day back in 2014 a poster noted a
53cm Atlantis was for sale in my town. At the time I was riding an old Trek
610. It was a nice bike, road well, but wouldn't fit tires bigger than
35mm. So I went to check out the Atlantis. Rode it around the parking lot
PS: The first time I laid eyes on a Rivendell was when I unboxed my
Atlantis. They seemed like nice people that knew what they were doing. 30
minutes out of the box & I was on the road. Within a few miles, I was
blown away at how nicely the bike rode.
PPS: About 10 years ago, a 47cm
I was looking for a serious touring bike but the offerings from Trek,
Specialized, etc., were all going to require some change to meet my
desires. Then I read a road test in Bikecentennial (now Adventure Cycling)
by John Schubert. His bottom line was if you wanted a serious touring bike
that
Funny, I just responded to Laura's thread and put my story in there.
Steel frame
Rim brakes
Upright riding habit
I was riding a 1990 Specialized Hard Rock mountain bike that I liked but
didn't love any longer and wanted something more comfortable. I knew I
wanted upright riding habit to
Why? Because I had an insurance settlement from getting doored in west
Berkeley, and I had a RBW catalogue in hand, having previously bought
Moustache Bars for my Novara XR "cross" bike from REI. I wrote to Grant,
and we settled on a 65cm LongLow frame. He took in all my specs, and the
frame
A good friend of mine from high school and college told me in 2001 that if I
ever bought a bike, it’d be a Rivendell. He told me I just seemed like a Riv
guy. I did not even ride back then, but I remembered and thought that if I ever
started riding, I’d look into Rivendell.
I thought about
My first adult bike was a 1995 Trek 730 Multitrack and I thought it was the
perfect bike for me, but as I learned more about bikes, I discovered I
wanted way more tire clearance (730 = 40mm, barely) and a much longer
top-tube. I was a fan of quite a few smaller bike brands and wanted
I received an early flyer/reader in an order from American Cyclery San
Francisco.
After reading the specs on the frames, the Allrounder sounded like a great
compliment to my classic road bike, by the time I ordered one they had gone
to customs and the Atlantis was replacing the Allrounder.
I
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