Jonathan, Awesome! It's funny how one wants another Riv right after the first! I bought a Clem late 2016 and have been pining for a Sam Hillborne as well! Maybe in 5 years for me :)
-Vincent On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 12:02:35 PM UTC-7, Jonathan wrote: > > Today marks 1000 miles on my Appaloosa that I bought last fall, so I > thought I'd make a post about it. It is my first Rivendell. I joined this > group right around the time I ordered it. > > > It's primarily my commuter. I ride to work year round in Milwaukee, in all > weather. (I put the Appaloosa away for the winter, though, and rode my old > beater with the studded tires.) The roads just got cleaned up enough to get > it back out last week. I love this bike. It made me a believer in upright > riding. It is such a beautiful, comfortable, useful bike. I love it more > than any bike I have ever owned. I love it so much that I ended up ordering > a new Canti-Sam frameset to be my long distance road bike, and then a > couple weeks ago, I also pre-ordered a Clem L for my wife. > > I bought the bike complete, so it's standard Riv-build, plus racks, bags, > and fenders. I swapped the bars soon after I got it for the Chocomoose. > Most of my miles are on those bars. Right before the snow hit last fall, I > tried a set of Bullmoose bars and really liked them, but didn't get many > miles in with them. Then, I picked up a set of "bad angle" Boscomoose bars > over the winter, and have been riding those for the past week. I think I > like them better than the Chocos, but not sure if these or the Bullmoose > will win out in the end... > > I'm excited to put a lot more miles on it this year. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0rh7TRJD05A/WqwHzr4aZLI/AAAAAAAAHqw/yCYjHgl9yAwwFJV_WEq70Q6YhoStIEQuACL4CGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_20180314_170900990.jpg> > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-g-z95Dtf_2c/WqwHzjHb99I/AAAAAAAAHqw/mVWTmfmLdsUUfm92fBAI-WxrO5vZCcrDwCL4CGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_20180314_170927280.jpg> > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Vw3cekptdc/WqwHzotL2GI/AAAAAAAAHqw/_-Sohn69z0IcBoQC--tlmXNkvLFduaXdgCL4CGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_20180313_173009623.jpg> > > > > > > -- 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.
