Mark, We like the HHH a lot. It is indeed a different beast than our Bilenky, which is a 650b S&S coupled drop-bar tourer. The HHH is more upright, and better for rides like this one. we also use it in town (going on a bike club ice cream ride on it tonight). On the road it still performs reasonably well, if not quite as fast as our Bilenky (much of which I put down to the riding position), but it has major fun factor. It rides well -- I also have a Clem H -- it is roughly analogous.
It has a Shutter dynamo front hub, a Velocity tandem rear hub, Alex DM24 rims. Tires are Maxxis Re-Fuse 650 x 2.0 (their mixed labeling) -- they're great for a mix of road and generally hard pack/gravel type riding. The wheels were supplied by Riv. We were in the first batch -- bought most of the parts from Riv, built it up myself. Not too tricky if you're a confifdent mechanic. Julian Westerhout Bloomington, IL On Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 7:31:11 AM UTC-5, Mark Roland wrote: > > Looks like a lovely day on the bike, not a bad consolation. > > You may have posted this already, but as an experienced tandemist, how are > you liking the HHH? I assume the Bilenky is a more traditional road setup > with drops? I will be taking possession of a medium HHH shortly. I have a > nice 26" Santana that I "converted" to be as HHH-like as possible, with > 2.1" tires and Boscos. I'm hoping the HHH takes the easy cruise handling to > another, Clem-like level--it's an expensive (and time-consuming) upgrade, > and who knows how much longer my son will want to ride attached to dad?! > > I should probably start another thread, but can you tell me what hubs, > wheels, & tires you are running? Did you build it up yourself? Any tricks I > should be aware of? (I have the Riv tandem Silver chainset, some Boscos, > not much else) If other HHH owners want to chime in.... > > On Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 9:52:52 PM UTC-4, Julian Westerhout wrote: >> >> COVID canceled our plan to tour in the UK on our Bilenky tandem this >> summer, so in partial compensation today we went for a day ride on the >> Illinois and Michigan Canal from Lasalle to Marseilles, Il and back on our >> Rivendell HHH -- about 45 miles. Nice ride, even if the path is very poorly >> maintained in places -- between Utica and Ottawa the path got rougher and >> rougher, then there was a missing bridge which required us to take the >> tandem down a muddy bank and wheel it across an 18" wide bridge some kind >> sole threw together from some old lumber. We then had to navigate a long >> section of limestone mud with running water -- fun! We ate lunch at Tangled >> Roots brew pub in Ottawa, IL (Yum!) and avoided the worst stretches of the >> path on the return by taking the road for 5 miles. A good day out... even >> if it isn't quite Cornwall, the British Peak District or Scotland! >> >> Photos here https://flic.kr/s/aHsmPzWJoy sine Google Groups tells me i >> can't upload them into the message for some reason. >> >> Julian Westerhout >> Bloomington, IL >> > -- 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/c46e50e1-0fdf-4e0b-bc1a-02e416338659o%40googlegroups.com.
