This is great news. It's the one bike missing in the line-up. I like the threadless option too. (I've become a handlebar-2.5-cm-below-the-saddle-guy and no longer care about the ease of up and down adjustment that the quill offers.)
Jack Browns are by far my favorite tire, but not every ride has to use them (and maybe this bike will). This is going to be a great bike. (Ask any Ram, Romulus, Heron Road, Longlow or Riv Road Standard rider. I'm speculating that this bike will fall somewhere within that spectrum.) -James On Jul 6, 2009, at 4:15 PM, ericda...@gmail.com wrote: > This sounds pretty nice (from the keyhole section of the Riv site): > > >>>>>>> > > We're working on sort-of-a-Ramboiullet replacement, but more of a > club-riding bike, so even lighter. It will be called one of these: > Rodeo...Roadio...Roadeo. And we'll offer it in your choice of > threadless (for most club riders) and threaded (for more > traditionalists). No rack braze-ons, light tubes, but still our bike > thru & thru, with our lugs, our design and choice of tubing, all that. > We'll have the prototype by late July, and Mark will build it up and > ride it, since he was the impetus behind it. > > >>>>>>> > > I was shocked--shocked! when I saw there were to be no rack braze ons, > but then I realized it will likely still have fender braze ons. That's > fine. I wonder if it will be Taiwanese or Toyo? Expanded or normal? > > While I'm doing one of my incredibly infrequent postings, here's a > bike I'd like to see: > > - Taiwanese Quickbeam replacement (because I'm cheap and I like the > sloping/expanded top tube look) > - but with caliper brakes (because I'm tired of cantis in most of my > bike history, and it should make the bike a bit cheaper to produce > since there are no canti studs to weld on, and there's really no > reason now for cantis except when using fat knobby tires) > - and please not light metallic blue (because I really don't like that > color) > - and maybe more roadish geometry > > > Eric D > Dublin O > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
