Hi everyone, this is my first post to this forum. After years of coveting a Riv, I ordered a Homer and my dealer expects delivery this spring. As I was just checking geometry to make sure I have a stem of the right length ready for my reach, I noticed that the 2021 model has a considerably steeper slope to the top tube (looks like almost 12 degrees, compared to 6, if bikeinsights has it right). I'm a bit shocked, as I hadn't realised there would be such a difference, and I hadn't read anything about any big changes (I know they posted the measurements, and it's on me for not doing due diligence, but I would have thought such a big change would have warranted mention on the Riv site, with maybe their thinking on why, and perhaps some comparison photos). All my visual reference for what I had to look forward to is now out of date and of course I'm second-guessing myself, maybe I should have ordered a Sam instead -- I'm mostly a one-bike-at-a-time guy and my current bike, which I've ridden for a long time, has a horizontal tube, and I felt 6 degrees was already a big step for me. But, by looking at and admiring a lot of people's builds I came to see the slight slope as a good thing and I embraced my 6-degree-slopey future, step boldly into the future etc.
Looking at the current photos on the Riv site, the Homer and the Sam have exactly the same top-tube slope (if you compare the pictures taken in profile they have models that line up perfectly -- switching back and forth between tabs, once I got them lined up, shows that they are close to identical), and they say there that the photos represent the 2021 geometry. So what's going on? If the stack has been increased by as much as the dimensions in the chart say, there's no way that those photos represent the 2021 geometry accurately. I don't know what to do now! What do you think? Jon -- 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/85404daa-50ab-42d9-8726-2e71430adf24n%40googlegroups.com.
