This is my wife's Riv mixte. It has 650B wheels and clearance for 42-44mm tires with fenders. Sometimes you have to look backwards for the "prize". Riv made this bike 15 years ago. It is still leading edge.
Will On Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 10:48:21 PM UTC-5, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > A Genuine Pretend Anniversary Mixte > > Ever since the sketch and the mention of a 25th Rivendell Anniversary > Mixte on the Blahg, I have been waiting like a kid on Christmas. The bikes > I love are the mixtes/step-throughs and what an honor that a mixte was > going to be the bike representing Rivendell Bicycle Works on their 25th. > Since then, I’ve haunted the Blug and the Blahg, checking my traps for any > hint of the rumored mixte coming to life. The fancy lugs, the Rivendell > decal, the wispy, light ovalized tubes, the “One Bike To Rule Them All” > decal I was jockeying to get Rivendell to place in some secret spot on the > frame...I can’t forget about it. > > In a recent e-newlsetter, the AM was mentioned but then seemingly tabled. > It’s inconceivable to me that this project may not happen. The lugs have > been designed, and they look to have a hummingbird cut into the lugwork. > And there’s no bird I love better than a hummingbird. > > I was discussing (despairing) online with friends from the List and one of > them said, “Why don’t you just get this in a custom? They might even make > those lugs for you.” > > I am not a custom kind of gal. I love the stock Rivendells I have in my > garage. But if the only way I can get an Anniversary Mixte is to make it > out of a custom, well, there’s an idea. > > A Genuine Pretend Anniversary Mixte. > > Grant is 65. The Gallup bike and the Longbolts bike are ahead of the AM in > the queue. The lug maker is going out of business. It could be a very long > time before the AM is in production. If ever. > > I can’t be the only one whose heart was set on having this bike. Would > anyone else want a Genuine Pretend Anniversary Mixte? Would it be over the > top if I ordered it as a custom? Would anyone else do the same? Would we > have a batch of them ordered? And if so, can I choose the color? RICH RED > WITH SPARKLES AND CREAM ACCENTS. Jewel-toned, like a hummingbird. > > This might be impossible. Too expensive, maybe Rivendell won’t agree to > it, maybe it’s a bad idea - but I’d at least like to explore it. Reply if > you have thoughts about it. This is fun, even if it turns out to be a pipe > dream. > Leah -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/5130ef97-a78f-42ba-aa36-9d186c4eeb6f%40googlegroups.com.
