Bobs and Rivs, A big thanks to Bill Hammond for the "long term loan" of his metallic pearl orange Rambouillet, size 54. I've been watching on here for years waiting on an orange Ram in my size. Wonder of wonders, Bill put his up for sale just down the road a couple of hours away. Bill still rides his Riv custom regularly!
Bill bought the Ram from the original owner, Bill Davis perhaps? Anyways, it was appropriate to keep this Riv Ram in the Bill lineage (other Bills will approve, I'm sure). Most of configuration is close to original with a few mods over the years: 8 speed with Suntour bar ends, Tektro/Cane Creek brake levers, Suntour Mountech crazy long front der., Brooks B-17, bar is Nitto 176 (think Noodle was orig), Tektro 556 long reach brakes, 105 long rear der, Technomic stem. Ruffy Tuffy tires on Araya TX350/Deore Paralax hubs. Pedals are clones of Deore clipless (maybe MKS). Shiny Deore 5 bolt triple crankset. First change was for fit. Needed the bars lower to be saddle height as the Technomic was way too tall when bottomed out. Had a Pearl on hand for a quick swap. Also added a Nitto M-13 rack for an Acorn Compact Rando bag which puts the top of the bag equal with the bars. May eventually add Shimano bar ends because the shape fits my hand a bit better, but that is a minor thing for a rainy winter day. The only drivetrain change was to see how lighter wheels would feel. Swapped out the Araya/Deore for Open Pro/Ultegra running 33mm tires. Lighter wheels really livened up the frame and made it feel snappy. I'll get a wheelset with wider rims to accomodate 37mm-as-measured tires (Will at Riv said that was the max for sure). Due to toe clip overlap, I won't be mounting fenders except for tours where rain can be expected. I was hoping not to have TCO, but all of my road bikes have it due to smallish 54 frames. Only my MTB with slack head tube doesn't have TCO. One of these days I'll get a custom frame without TCO! Cheers, Bill in Roswell, GA -- 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.
