Bones and Drew, Beautiful jobs on your Appa's!
Isaak, Looking good! I'm following a similar path right now with my Susie (2.5" Ehlines>55mm RH knobbies + fenders) and it' wears well on your bike. jared in SC, CA On Monday, December 23, 2024 at 2:27:46 PM UTC-8 Dan wrote: > Stunning build(s) Isaak! Leisurely gravel cruises up mountains with > singletrack on the way down - that's almost a perfect use case for this > bike. Maybe throw in collecting a load of groceries afterwards. There's > something about the bike with Ortho bars too. I think they were almost made > for the bike, so long as one can find a long enough stem. > The way you've set it up in its current form (50mm tyres + fenders + rear > rack) looks as close to a do-anything touring bike as I can imagine. If I > ever did a long-ish tour (Italy, Japan...! One day) that's the setup I'd > use I think. Right now I'm sticking to my 2.2s because, as you say, it's so > fun. > Hope you have many more smiles on the bike going forwards! > > On Tuesday, 24 December 2024 at 05:00:02 UTC+10:30 isaako...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Seen here in trail mode before I swapped the brooks on. Did a mighty job >> in the snow both up and down. Something about screaming down swoopy >> singletrack on these bars...delicious! >> >> [image: IMG_5154.jpg] >> >> On Monday, December 23, 2024 at 10:28:36 AM UTC-8 Isaak Oliansky wrote: >> >>> I will oblige! Howdy from Ashland, Oregon. This is my first Riv and I >>> just adore it. It's a 57 Joe that fits my short legged long torso-ed 6'0" >>> self quite well with a 135mm stem and rons ortho bars. Before putting a >>> rack, 50mm gravel kings, and fenders on it, we spent some time hitting >>> single track shod in 2.2 race kings and having a blast. The 20/34 gear >>> spins through anything, and I find that the long wheelbase kept this >>> planted on some gnarly climbs. I kept taking it on leisurely gravel cruises >>> up the mountain and had an impossible time resisting taking the single >>> track home...even made it down a black diamond trail once! >>> >>> Build highlights are the TA zephyr 20/36 cranks (110/56 bcd! my dream! >>> These were an Atlantis spec a decade or two ago I was told), tall and solid >>> campy chorus headset, polished steel xtr chromoly seatpost, my first b17 in >>> a decade (hidden under the randijo saddle cover- copper rails, brown honey >>> leather), and fillet brazed faceplater stem. Of course there's a medium >>> cage rapid rise xtr hanging on the back! And the cutouts on the dura ace >>> front derailleur match the cutouts on the chainguard. Wow, I love bikes! >>> The Nitto campee mini rack did not place nicely with the moto >>> lites...*anyone >>> have a compatible nitto front they wanna trade? :) *I'm trying to get >>> my front bag out of my headtube. >>> >>> [image: IMG_6445.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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/639450d8-c78b-4b90-b863-80b909e9cec1n%40googlegroups.com.
