Clayton, Kudos on the bike and post. I followed this thread but didn't participate for years because I didn't own a Rivendell. I think it was a combination of reading the rules multiple times and then seeing how welcoming everyone was that I finally believed that I didn't have to own a Rivendell to participate. That and the fact that I started buying stuff from the forum but knew, from the rules, that this should not be a marketplace; that is not the focus; its a community (I hope I didn't screw that up). Part of me wishes I had just bought a Rivendell much earlier. My parents ingrained a strong...thriftiness (but not necessarily in all my siblings! :-p). Humble salary, humble bike, makes sense to me. So part of me also thinks I should just ride '80's-'90's steel/rigid StumpJumpers and the like. Still in line with the Rivendell ethos! (I'll reference a Rivendell Reader on that). In that sense, your pseudo Rivendell bike is not a Rivendell (bike) but is Rivendell (in aproach).
I'm building up an Atlantis...kind of. Been lagging / work. I'll see if I still want to ride my ~'84 StumpJumper once the Atlantis is complete! Check out the iBoB forum: https://groups.google.com/g/internet-bob too. Lots of overlap but also great. Nice bike. -Matthew San Diego, on Kumeyaay land, where yesterday we called attention to missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW) On Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 8:45:57 AM UTC-7 Clayton Stahnke wrote: > I've been an admiring (lurking?) member of this group for a few months now > and I've really wanted to post something for a while...but I don't have any > Rivendell frames (yet!). > > However, many of my builds are heavily Rivendell-inspired and I figured I > would share my latest project here with you all. The bike in question is a > 1987 Bridgestone 550 (53cm), so it's not too far off from a Rivendell ;) > > I purchased this bike off CL last summer as an impulse buy--I needed a new > project and the price point was just right for me. It was pretty much > entirely stock with only a few paint chips--I'd call this color "Blue > Sharpie" since most of the paint chips were inconspicuously filled in with > blue sharpie ink. I threw some bones at it to make it into a zippy > singlespeed, but it sat in the garage for most of its initial revival since > the 700cx25 wheelset was a bit too harsh for my tastes. > > Fast forward to last month, I was able to secure a sturdy 650b wheelset > (Thanks, David B!) and I took a stab at converting this beauty into a > "Track-lo-neur" of sorts. The photo below is the finished product and boy > howdy, what a world of a difference the wheelset makes for this bike. I > usually ride an Atlantis-ified Diamondback Apex around town, but this > Homebrew Saluki makes me feel like I'm back in my college days riding > around campus again. > > Any other Rivendell wannabes out there? I'd love to hear about your > inspired builds! > > -Clayton > > [image: IMG_1440.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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/31c41bfb-26b3-42ce-b8ce-947b36292f6an%40googlegroups.com.
