The reality about parts is this: - you can fit a modern outboard bearing crank on a Riv. 68mm bb shells aren't going away. - rim brakes aren't going away. - seatposts? Always there - saddles are fine - quills stems are produced constantly by several makers - tires we have MORE of now than 10 years ago! - we now have more dynamo hubs too! - plenty of nice rear hubs, including MUSA - Microshift has reinvigorated thumb and bar end shifting - we have so many choices of racks and bags nowadays
The worries are - 26" & 650b rims for rim brakes. - forks? That's a weird concern. I think the number of forks that Riv has had to replace is pretty low as illustrated by their selling off of forks and building weirdo bikes around them recently - ?? There's a lot to be said of why Riv should do x, y or z but scarcity of parts is silly. -J -- 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.