The fender spacers make me really happy. Great idea, great execution, and just a beautiful hidden detail. I wouldn't change the bars, either. I have moustache bars on two bikes, both with slightly short top tubes (58cm) for my height. Hard to retrofit a new top tube on an Atlantis! I like them, and use the ends quite a bit for leverage and for cruising. I used to use the hoods a lot, but I think I'm just way slower now than I was 10 years ago...
Philip www.biketinker.com On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 5:22:25 AM UTC-7, ADH wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for the kind comments about my bike. I spent a LOT of > time looking at everyone else's Rivendells trying to figure out what I > wanted to do. So it's really an amalgamation of everyone else's ideas. > Except for the fender spacers. They were my idea. If anyone is interested > in trying something like that, I gave a pretty detailed explanation of what > I did in the Flickr comments. The key was having a stainless threaded bolt > running through the beads and countersinking a nut so it was rigid. It's > been 9 years and it still looks great and is structurally sound. > > As for the bars, I'm going to keep Noodle-ing, I think. At least for now. > > On Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 9:59:30 PM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> Holy crap that's a nice build! Yes, you're at your shortening limit >> stem-wise so no Moustache for you, but you have plenty of room for >> Albatross and such-as if you ever want to try it. I'm about your size and >> tend to "buy big" as well: I like big, roomy frames that can take a >> pullback bar without feeling cramped. > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
