Aha. Thanks for the clarification. So this means that my current (summer, 2020) road bike may be the culmination of the trend starting with the XOs and passing through the All Rounder, but diverted toward road/pavement riding: 26 X 42s with fenders, normal gauge, thinnish-wall 531 frame, geometry tweaked for best handling on pavement.
On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 6:59 PM John in PDX <veloro...@flash.net> wrote: > Nice comments, thanks. Color official name os golden olive, and that it > is. Little metallic, little pearl sheen to it. Don’t think cream would be > a good contrast. > > Tires are older Compass. Think they are equivalent to Natches Pass, > 1.8”. Room for fenders. Tektro 720 cantis. Still dialing in to eliminate > the front squeal, the original owner had given up on that and installed > B-brakes, which I don’t favor. Love the big volume supple tires. Think > this bike can be a true all a rounder, city bike, light and heavy touring, > gravel. Much like the Atlantis. > > Original owner gave me paint chips Grant had sent to finalize the color > selection. > > On Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 3:55:55 PM UTC-8 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> The color is a very nice green that Grant seemed to like in the early >> days. My first All Rounder-based 26" wheel road custom was the same >> color (one reason why John's AR provokes such a torrent of nostalgic >> sentiment). I've since come to prefer Rivendell's later sage green >> (which goes perfectly with the cream that, stirred in with this >> original green, might well give you that higly preferred sage green), >> but this original Riv green does indeed provoke atavistic and >> sentimental memories, and it deserve a place on the archival palette. >> >> >> S. Greco said: "such a classic! i really get nostalgic about this era >> of Rivendell. any idea what this color is? it seems like it was >> somewhat common on rivs from this time." >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> > -- > 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/7c2f242f-efd9-4f82-bbd5-d99fdf0e3bafn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7c2f242f-efd9-4f82-bbd5-d99fdf0e3bafn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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/CALuTfgsfUEc%3D3mYv3NH1xu5YL5uCCnA45LPFBRekwtsAsV%2BxOg%40mail.gmail.com.
