One thing that I never understood about the design Riv ended up with is compensating for the variable angles as a result of the wheel change. It appears with their angled dropout* design a wheel closer to the seat tube steepens the ST and HT angle while a wheel farther away from the seat tube would slacken them.
I road a QB for a while and regretfully sold it. It was a great bike. I didn't slide the wheel though *all dropouts obviously had a measurement of their angle. In this context we all know what we all mean :) JL sf, Ca > On Feb 7, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Philip Williamson <philip.william...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Max - The Fitz custom is going to be only tangentially "Matt Chester-ish" and > will include influences from every bike I've owned in the last 20 years. > Here's the BikeCad drawing (before the dropout angle change). The biggest > inputs are 60mm G-One tires and a 170mm dropper post. Planning for future > singlespeedability is just a nice-to-have, like dynamo wiring. "As long as > it's custom, why not get exactly what I want?" > > Jeremy - Thank you! I passed your info along to John. > > > Philip > Santa Rosa, CA > > >> On Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 12:50:40 AM UTC-8, Max S wrote: >> Very curious to find out how this turns out -- mainly in how a builder >> executes a riff on the Matt Chester concepts... I'm contemplating a bike >> like that in the near future, so please post photos when it's done! >> >> - Max "it's good to have projects" >> >>> On Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 12:53:52 AM UTC+2, Philip Williamson wrote: >>> I'm having a custom bike built, and it will have slider dropouts for >>> singlespeed use. >>> I want the builder to angle the dropouts like my Quickbeam's, so I can >>> change the gears without adjusting the brake shoe height or angle. >>> >>> The Quickbeam dropouts are angled ~20* relative to the ground, and about >>> 10* relative to the stay. >>> The dropout slot angle ALSO looks like it is parallel to the brake shoes. >>> To my mind, this is the key fact. Is it? >>> >>> The new bike's seat stay angle is more acute than the QB's, and its BB is >>> lower. Do the relative angles not really matter, as long as the dropout >>> slot is parallel to the brake shoe angle? >>> >>> Philip >>> Santa Rosa, CA > > -- > 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.
