Interesting—that design dates to the early days of cycling and certainly wasn’t invented by Specialized. My Pashley Guvnor, built a few years ago per plans drawn up by Pashley in the 1920s, has the same basic design:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0181/8445/products/pashley_guvnor_bells_bicycles_2_1024x1024.jpg?v=1451339274 <https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0181/8445/products/pashley_guvnor_bells_bicycles_2_1024x1024.jpg?v=1451339274> The seatstays have the same basic design, which from the back looks like a wine bottle—the straight part is the neck of the bottle at the top. --Eric N campyonly...@me.com <mailto:campyonlyguy@me.comuilt> www.CampyOnly.com Campyonlyguy.blogspot.com @Campyonlyguy > On Apr 20, 2017, at 3:48 AM, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here is a pic of an 83 Stumpy like the one I had > http://bikes.aberrance.com/stumpjumper/20080525CleanedUp/images/20080525Stumpy-020.jpg > As you can see it is very unique, I have not seen anyone configure the stays > like this again. What it self evident in the pic is the straight part is just > where the rings needed to be, then it bowed out. There is no chance of any > chain suck on these, and it was not until I got a Bombadil did I even know > what it was. > > I have not seen any of the long stay Riv frames in person, but I too have > wondered if they do not lend themselves to being straighter near the bb > shell, lending to being able to use cranksets maybe the other frames could > not, like the AT. > > If you really think the 127mm with or w/wo spacers will work for you I have a > barely used UN72 127 that I used with my Stumpy that I could send you. I have > had it laying around since I sold it and well, it is just sitting there > waiting for some good use. No charge either. Btw, I use spacers with > cartridges all the time, I have either a 1mm or 1.5mm on my Bombadil right > now. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
