Re: [RBW] Re: Fw:URL Odd small Riv on Ebay

2010-07-13 Thread Bill Connell
I nominate this the best thread of the year. All this detective work has been fun! Taylor - post some pictures when you get it, i missed the original auction, would be interesting to see. Bill On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:06 PM, grant grant...@gmail.com wrote: The Funkadelik Riv was a 52cm

Re: [RBW] Re: Fw:URL Odd small Riv on Ebay

2010-07-13 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 13:06 -0700, grant wrote: The Funkadelik Riv was a 52cm prototype made before we had our lugs. A pre-prototype, if there is such a thing. Or, a pre-pre... I got the invoice. It says (52cm prototype) and is dated 10-30-95. That would make it even rarer and more valuable,

Re: [RBW] Re: Fw:URL Odd small Riv on Ebay

2010-07-13 Thread Doug Van Cleve
Grant, thanks for closing the loop on that :^) I knew about the early Waterford bikes that went out with HJ crowns due to the redesign of the original RBW crown, my friend Phil had an early one for a while that actually had 2 forks, one with the RBW crown and one with the HJ). I didn't know

RE: [RBW] Re: Fw:URL Odd small Riv on Ebay

2010-07-12 Thread Frederick, Steve
Owners Bunch Subject: [RBW] Re: Fw:URL Odd small Riv on Ebay I agree with Doug, those lugs looks very simple for an early Rivendell. IIRC the Road Standards had the Richard Sachs designed lugs other models hand different, simplier (but not his simple?) lugs. Angus On 11 July, 23:16, Doug Van