I'm with you on being less than enchanted with cantilever brakes. "Spirit of the group" notwithstanding (it's your bike, after all), the Magura hydraulic rim brakes are nice, but may be limiting in terms of what kind of handlebar bar you can use with them. My choice would be to use v-brakes (aka linear-pull). Even the cheapest Tektro or Shimano v-brakes are a HUGE improvement over the fanciest cantilevers in terms of stopping power and ease of adjustment. And now Tektro and Cane Creek both have drop-bar levers that work with v-brakes. Also, I hear (but have not tried personally) that the latest series of Shimano STI levers will pull enough cable to adequately operate v-brakes (I've heard of new stock Santana tandems set up like that).
On Nov 22, 3:51 pm, Minh <mgiangs...@gmail.com> wrote: > First i want to say thanks to everyone on this group, i've been a Riv > member for a long time but away for the last few years. I recently > looked at my stable of bikes and realized i didn't actually want to > ride any of them for a long period of time so i decided to solve > that. A new go-fast bike was not that appealing to me and the new > Rivendell's like the AHH or Roadeo were more then i wanted to spend. > > The Hillborne looked like a good idea as i wanted to put a rack and > fenders on mine, the canti brakes were a slight turn-off (i gave up > canti's like 10 years ago!) But i got over this too, as an aside is > anyone running the old magura hydraulic brakes on an Hillborne or > Atlantis? I know this is counter to the spirit of the group but > curious if anyone has done this. I have them on a mt bike only. > > Anyway i've been lurking for awhile hoping to pick up a Rambouillet, > Atlantis, Bleriot etc but nothing in my size or i was too late. I > finally picked up a Hillborne on ebay last week (yes the orange single > tt one in the box on ebay last week--sorry if you were bidding against > me, for the record his reserve price was almost his BIN price). I > just got it today and i realized that this is actually the first "new" > bike i've had to build up from scratch ever and it's by far the nicest > one, the thought of putting it into the work-stand for the first time > feels a little strange. > > One thing i will say, i know what Grant means about not quite as nice > as AHH finish but perfectly fine nonetheless, there are some less then > perfect paint areas (one spot on the top tube looks like they got some > sediment in the paint, it's actually quite bad) it's the kind of > thing that bothers you at first but then you realize there are a lot > worse things in life but since i plan on riding this bike it's not the > end of the world for me, the sparkly paint is nice. > > Sorry if there is not much point to this post, just excited to build > up my first Rivendell bicycle. I'm a little worried about the size i > got (went with 56, scared of the 60 and my PBH is low relative to > height), but i'll see once i get wheels etc on the bike and whether i > need to swap out stems etc. > > Now on to the important decisions like what color bar tape.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
