On 02/28/2017 04:38 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote:
What could you do on a Rambouillet that you can't do on a Roadeo?
1) you could buy it for under a thousand dollars, IIRC vs over twice that for the Roadeo
2) the Rambouillet had seat stay rack mounts. I can't tell for sure, but it doesn't look like the Roadeo has them. Riv's web site says of the Roadeo "Basically, it's not a "light touring" bike, or anything of the sort," while the Rambouillet did that job pretty well by all accounts. (Now that doesn't say you couldn't clamp on a rack and go touring with the Roadeo, people did that with road racers during the Bicentennial, but "Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should.")
3) use a 135mm OLN rear wheel? (at least I think I remember the Rambouillet came with a 132mm go-either-way spacing)
In my mind, those two models are functionally identical, and you can buy a Roadeo if you want a Rivendell and want a 'not-dumb' stripped down road bike. Rivendell also selling country bikes has not displaced the nice road bike.
Pretty much, isn't the Roadeo the functional equivalent of the old Road Standard also?
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