If it is a '99, it is a Ted Durant financed, Riv designed and marketed Heron. Please remember that the only standard/long reach brakes available then were old, either used or NOS. Riv road models generally were made for maximum clearance with "normal" short reach calipers. I think tires were more liberally labeled then than they are nowas well, with many running 1-2 sizes smaller than marked. My '99 Joe Starck built Riv Road Std can easily clear a real 32mm tire with Campy short reach brakes, not sure a fender would go in there though. It is a great bike you've got, and will ride very nicely with 28+mm wide tires...
Doug On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Jim Martin <jim.mar...@utah.edu> wrote: > Hello All: > > I just purchased a beautiful used 1999 Waterford built Heron and you can > see the sellers ad > here<http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=146608&highlight=heron>. > Before buying it I looked at the archived version of the Heron website > for > 99<http://web.archive.org/web/20000510073030/http://www.heronbicycles.com/general_info.html>and > read: > "A Heron Road has lots of the same features as a > Rivendell<http://web.archive.org/web/20000510073030/http://www.rivendellbicycles.com/>, > and is just as versatile. You can put fenders on it or ride it with 700x35s > on bad roads and fire trails, and you can race it on a smooth course." > > So imagine my surprise when I tried to install my wheels with 32mm Conti > Sport Contact tires. And found that they are within about a half a mm of > the rear brake bridge. No way you could ride a 35mm tire. Certainly can't > ride the 32's with fenders and its hard to know if I can get fenders and > 28mm tires to work either. Why the misleading information? I'm not blaming > the seller because, after going straight to the web site, I already "knew" > about tire clearance I didn't bother to ask him. So much for my trust in > all things related to Rivendell. > > Jim > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
