Grant teased: " in some cases you may see trad tube diameters (28.6 seat and down tubes, 25.4 top tubes) "
A Rivendell with a 28.6mm downtube!? A Rivendell with a 25.4mm top tube!? Hold on to your Jan Heine, folks! We're about to start "planing" ! It all sounds very exciting. I'm glad round 1 is fully funded. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 3:43:40 PM UTC-7, Grant @ Rivendell wrote: > > We have deposits for the first run-o-Rubbes and are planning (designing > another now). So far, so good. Most of the forks are Sams, but there are > some others. We're trying hard NOT to overlap existing models. Like, we > have no tall-tall Sam, but we have forks for a 64, so we can do something > like that. We're about out of Clem L's in 59 with no more coming, so we can > do a stepthru tall bike. All of them will (be edict!) have a "Bubbe Tube,' > formerly a funkatube, because it works good and looks good--esp on a bike > with like a 12-degr upslope. And it make the bike easier to carry. We have > special 24mm and 22.2mm round x 0.8 CrMo tubes for these B-tubes. And in > some cases you may see trad tube diameters (28.6 seat and down tubes, 25.4 > top tubes) combined with a Btube as small as 22.2. ---the Btube will add > structure to a bike that without it might be wimpy for its size. > Also, throw in a 31.8 downtube on such a frame, and you'll have four diff > diameters. > None of this is nutty or willy nilly. There are different ways to add > structure, and we'll get creative or quirky now and then, but not at the > cost of the frame. > > Anyway, they're coming. We're getting one here, too. The plan is, for > every runorubs, we get one here, and we'll ride it and eventually sell it. > > > On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 3:34:34 PM UTC-7, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >> I didn't sign up for the email list, because I did not have a sincere >> intent to buy another bike. The rosco blug said they will order them if >> (IF!) they get deposits for 10 by April 20th, and it looks like they've got >> 6 so far. Does that mean Rosco will get delayed, or dropped? I hope it >> happens. Those bikes look really cool. >> >> Bill Lindsay >> El Cerrito, CA >> > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
