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> I've been trolling through old Riv Reader's, some fun reading I remember
> doing a long time ago when those w
I definitely prefer the handling of a hand position in front of the pivot
point, and not too far away from the center-line of the bike. Riding on
the hoods of older, narrower drop bars is like this, ditto some flat bars
if the stem is right. *But* that position is always too far forward for me
Most of my rides are along the American River Bike Trail in the Sacramento
area. For me they are therapeutic, grounding, and recharging. I love
seeing the the changes of seasons, and deepening my relationship with the
outdoors beyond my own property (which is a very small orchard). Most of
m
Hi Leah,
I'm in Sacramento where we have a similar hot and dry conditions, though a
little cooler than Vegas, I think.
My recommendation is to get the lightest weight, 100% merino wool, long
sleeve base layer or t-shirt you can find. 150 weight or lower, not 250.
Get a good one that is sof
Sending PM for Cazaderos.
-Eric
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Patagonia makes climbing knickers:
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I second all of Deacon Patrick's recommendations.
Regarding ankle support, in my experience this is a misnomer. Boots that
cover your ankle provide *protection* (from rocks, brush, water, cold, etc)
but not *support*, there just isn't enough rigidity for that. In a similar
vein, soft insole
This has been an interesting thread to read, for sure. My sense from
riding mostly older bikes was that head tube angle + trail + front center
length + hand position affected steering and handling more, while rear
center (chainstay) and overall wheel base affected smoothness of ride. The
fron
I'd ridden bikes as a kid and had a Cannondale touring bike in college, but
then nothing for about 15 years. Around 2007 my wife and I decided that
bike riding would be a good family activity for us and our young child. We
got three-speeds (mine was a beat up 67 Raleigh Superbe), but I fell in
What an interesting bunch of folks, I wish more of you lived closer to me.
While my wife was pregnant I worked on reducing my hobbies, so that I could
spend more time with my son. I picked music (guitar) and reading as things
I could do either alone or with him. He's 13 and we still play music
I've been working on selling off my older bikes and there just doesn't seem
to be any buyers out there. Riv content is that these are decent steel
bikes, from the 80s-90s, still comfortable to ride, with new parts like
cables/housing/brake pads, and tuned up so all the remaining older parts
wo
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There was still some grease in the mechanism, but I added some more and
gave it a short test ride; it's a lot quieter now :-) The noise level
oscillates a bit with each tire rotation though, so I guess I wasn't very
even with my application :-(
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Most of mt wool shirts are from woolandprince.com. They have some plaids
with red in them.
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Thank you Jeremy, for all that detail!
Based on my experience with the VO hub, just lubricating the pawls
themselves and not the interface was enough to make a huge difference in
noise level. I'll make sure the interface stays clean.
Best regards,
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Has any one serviced one of Rivendell's Silver free hubs? I want to grease
the pawls to quiet things down back there (I have Phil Tenacious Oil for
this), but the only free hub I've worked on is a VO, which doesn't need any
tools. I've figured out that the Silver hubs were made by KT, but they
I prefer the Keen Clearwater sandals, they're about half the weight of the
Newports: https://www.keenfootwear.com/p/M-CLEARWATER-CNX.html
-Eric
On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 11:46:24 AM UTC-7, WETH wrote:
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> Keen Newport leather sandals:
> https://www.keenfootwear.com/p/M-NEWPORT.html
> I live
Military knickers sold, Sondre ones still available.
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I know it's a little late in the season, but I have 2 pairs of Wool
knickers/breeches to sell and I am offering them here before flogging them
on Ebay. Riv content: I used them for cycling.
Pair 1: vintage, used military knickers/breeches. Heavy wool fabric, with
reinforced seat and bu
Regarding the Flyer, I've found that the springs work better as suspension
the more upright you are, but I always had my bars at or slightly above
saddle height. This was true back when I weighed 175+, and is still true
now at about 160. But more than the overall suspension, I found that the
Man, I would love to see nice looking quill stems with removable faces...
On Monday, April 29, 2019 at 2:52:14 PM UTC-7, jandrews wrote:
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> I also wrote Matt and this I what he said about the sizing :
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> “They are actually 30mm reach. I will also have some in 50mm as well as a
> bunch of remov
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik/d/napa-59cm-bleriot-rivendell-touring/6872632091.html
No connection to bike or seller, etc.
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I've mostly ridden older bikes which came to me in good shape so I just
rode them as they came, after I cleaned them, replaced rubber parts and
sometimes cables/housing, and gave them a tuneup. In all this time I only
had one bike with indexed shifting (and a derailleur). It worked OK, but
te
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for hosting this, it was great to meet you and others in person, and
see all the great bikes :-)
-Eric
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https://sacramento.craigslist.org/bik/d/sacramento-59cm-rivendell-homer-hilsen/6841650995.html
No affiliation to seller
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I just took the cranks off a regular (right-sized) bike for my son.
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PM sent for wheelset.
On Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 1:00:25 PM UTC-8, Derek Atkins wrote:
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> Everything pending except the wheelset and brake levers. Getting back to
> PMs now.
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In my experience metal fenders are definitely not quieter than plastic, and
take some extra tinkering to achieve a similar noise level. Leather
washers help, as does an extra attachment point over the front if it
extends far forward. The noise is also different in nature: metal rings
while pl
Been meaning to post an update on this. I went with the Ourys, per
Jeremy's recommendation, because they come pre-grooved. They have 5
grooves, so one can be lined up at the bottom, and the other 4 are nicely
spaced, visually. Also, because they have grooves around, not just
lengthwise, you
My Sam Hillborne from late fall / early winter, by the American River near
Sacramento.
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Nice! I'm in Sac, I'd love to go to it again.
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I tend to wear barefoot shoe's off the bike, but always wanted some extra
padding/stiffness on the bike, even with platform pedals. I may give
Patrick's extra inserts idea a try.
My current "biking shoe" is a pair of older Puma sneakers, with soles
somewhere between the Sambas and *old school*
Returned to cycling around 2009. Was immediately inspired by Grant and
Rivendell, but could only afford older bikes, including an XO-3 I kept
original and an MB-3 which I Rivved out with Brooks saddle, Albatross bars,
etc. Got up to 12 bikes for family of 3, but most are mine.
In 2018 I bought
Beautiful! That's in *much* nicer shape than the one I just sold. I had
built mine up similarly, but reverted it back to mostly original before
selling it. It was a fun bike to ride, and I might have kept it if it had
been in the same condition as yours.
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Sending PM for Catalyst pedals
On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 8:24:26 AM UTC-8, tc wrote:
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> Hey everyone, I'm selling these 2 sets individually, just listing them
> together:
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> *VP Thin Gripsters*:
> $40 shipped CONUS. Dark blue-gray. (Note - the new ones currently
> offered by Riv are pur
Saw this today and thought of this thread. Your bike is much, much nicer
nicer though.
HUFFY BIKE WITH CANOE AND DOLLY CART - $600
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/bik/d/huffy-bike-with-canoe-and/6705634334.html
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These are all good ideas, thanks! I may try the inner tube or cork wrap up
on the curves, but I think the Oury grips are what I'll try first.
Cheers,
Eric
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Mat, thanks for the tip about adding spacers to the Grip Kings! Did you
use the round spacers that look like a piece of really thick walled pipe,
or did you drill through a block of aluminum for something that spans
across both screws, or something else?
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Went for a 30 mile ride today on the Albatross bars, and somewhere between
20 and 25 miles I found myself wishing for some part of the grip with more
padding. Right now the main grip area is just a wrap of Neubaum's tape and
the rest is bare metal. I didn't have great luck with the last cork g
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/bik/d/rivendell-cheviot-55cm-650b/6729042329.html
I have no connection, just saw it on Craigslist.
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Hi Mat and Patrick, I’m totally on board with the floor living. In fact
not being able to sit comfortably on the floor for long periods is what
drove me to work on my hips/hams/glutes. I’ve got plenty of stretches for
them, and they’ve made a difference, but mostly I just try to spend more
You guys are a treasure trove of information, thanks!
@Mat, thanks for the link to Steve Hogg; his functional method of
determining height is the sort of method I use in my other athletic
endeavors.
It also sounds like I share some other considerations with a number of
you: midfoot pedaling
Up until about a month ago I rode 58cm sized bikes, in varying degrees of
(dis)comfort. Then I started riding my new significantly larger Sam
Hillborne and realized all my older bikes are too small, so I've basically
decided to replace one of my old bikes with something similar (mid-80s
spor
What a useful tool! And timely too. Thanks for sharing it here.
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The ones from the 24" are 152 which is slightly better sized for his 160cm
than the 165 cranks on the 26" bike. Bikes aren't selling well around here
at this time of year, so stealing the others is fine for now. I may look
into buying something others if the market for complete bikes picks up.
That's a nice build, Mark. I've been wondering about shorter cranks. I
may try the shorter ones from his 24" bike and see how he likes that before
buying or modifying.
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We just went through this with my 12 year old, who was maxed out riding his
24" bike. I looked around at newer bikes and couldn't find anything we
wanted in our price range, though I might have reconsidered if I'd seen the
info from this thread. In the end we took a similar route with him that
Sadly, I missed a chance to "nice bike" someone last weekend :-( Someone
riding the other way, I noticed the canvas looking handlebar bag first,
then what looked like moustache bars and that the rider may have been
female(?) but then we'd passed each other. I gotta be quicker on the
uptake an
I have a Copenhagen on one bike, and a Pletscher on the other. The
Copenhagen seems bulkier than the Pletscher, but I think it is actually
slightly lighter weight. The adjustability and large feet and cheaper
price make the VO pretty attractive. The both work about the same as far
as I can t
Ditto the Topeak Joe Blow Sport. I bought it in a Performance Bike store,
and the staff recommended it because the return rate is so low compared to
the others they stock.
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> My Topeak Joe Blow Sport meets those criteria. I think I
I guess I'm a 2TTer by epoch, though I really didn't care for the double
top tubes when I first saw them. Then we got to the diagatube which I
couldn't tell if I liked or not but eventually settled on liking, and now
we have the bridge truss curved second tubes, and I love those. I got back
in
PM sent on Mark's Rack.
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When riding my classic vintage bikes I've always has lots of great
interactions with people on foot, and plenty of conversations with other
cyclists when opportunities arise, like stopped at the same place to admire
a view. But this has been different: The pedestrians were still just as
frien
I've been riding on the American River Bike Trail in (Sacramento, CA) for
about 10 years now, mostly on a bike with drop bars, and occasionally on a
mountain bike. Nearly all the cyclists who pass me call out "on your left"
first, regardless of whether I'm riding alone or with my son, or on wh
I have kickstands on most of my bikes, but I've been really happy with the
Bikehand for my bike that doesn't have one. Easy to move around and quite
stable. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BW4TP7C/
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Hi Thomas,
I made a standoff like the Acorn one, but if the bag wasn't full or had
heavy stuff in it then it sort of collapsed back around the standoff, so I
stopped using it. I just bought some coroplast to see if I can make a
stiffener for it that will help solve the problem. Acorn uses HDP
Very nice! I was considering green bar tape for my build too :-) I've
noticed the paint seems to chip easily, but so far not in large flakes. If
it ever gets to the point of needing to repaint it, I will also change the
rear brake braze-ons to accommodate continuous housing, but I hope that d
Thanks everyone, I'm pretty fond of the color too. I remember admiring it
when the bike first came out, there was one parked near my worked, and I
read and re-read the lovely bike posts about it.
@Jeremy, How cool! If you see me again you should stop me and have a chat!
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That sounds like a wider spacing than normal...
I went through this a couple weeks ago, and even called Rivendell to ask
about running a 130 wheel in a 135 dropout. I said I wanted to use the
wheel for a few years, and they said it would be fine. But again, my
spacing really was only 5mm diff
Here are some pictures of the situation. One shows the bag in its current
dangling position; this works, I've used it like this for years on other
bikes. The other shows the approximate bag position I would like to
achieve with a rack. The lower front corner of the bag is about 2" above
and
Thanks for the tip about the Erlen. It looks like that would fit this bag,
where the Carradice Bagman rack wouldn't.
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I use an older Velo-Orange small randonneur bag with the decaleur that
mounts under the headset lock nut on my 23"/56.5cm Univega sport tourer.
It holds enough stuff and stays in place when riding (including fire roads
and some trails) while still being easy to remove/replace when I want to.
HaHA! Yes, this is a tweed one. It's sort of a mediocre bag compared to
what is out there today such as the Acorns or Sackvilles, etc, but's it the
bag I have, it works fine for what I need, and I still love the look of
it. But I think it would look better supported by a rack, along these
li
Those look great, and I love the range of movement they accommodate! I use
an old pair of LL Bean wool knickers, but they are better for hiking and
skiing than cycling because of the shorter leg length.
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I have a Nigel Smythe Country Bag which I want to provide support for, in
some sort of specific ways:
- I want to keep the bag snugged up to the saddle, so the rack needs to
adjust to different heights
- I don’t want the bag to sit on top of any tombstone/load-stopper, so
the rac
I've got it mostly built now, at least enough to take for a short test
spin, and I can tell I am going to have a lot of fun on this bike! I've
got a temporary seatpost in it, and I just ordered bar tape, but I'll post
pics when they are in place. Also, having bar end shifters on the
Albatross
Hi Bob,
For today's Sam I would definitely want the 58cm. I took my sizing for
this bike from the Rivendell Reader #41, which introduced the Sam, with the
60cm being for PBH 87-94. Mine is that original green color, but with a
pewter colored head badge rather than gold, so I think it's from t
Thanks for the extra feedback :-)
I'm still waiting on some parts I've bought, but man, this bike is huge!
It feels similar in size to the 25" mid-80's Cannondale touring bike I used
to have, which I loved but always felt a little big. (My PBH is 89.5, so
this is sized right according to Rive
Hi,
Is your Nitto S83 seatpost still available? If so I would like to buy it.
(I tried replying directly, but got a bounceback.)
Best regards,
Eric
On Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 3:05:19 AM UTC-7, Thomas Lynn Skean wrote:
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> Tallux and Dirt Drop #1 are spoken for.
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> Yours,
> Thomas Lynn Ske
So, I looked around on the internet and found enough different opinions
about running wrong size wheels on steel bikes that I decided to try to
parse out those which clearly come from experience and knowledge. In the
spirit of sharing, here is my summary of internet wisdom on the topic:
So, I looked around on the internet and found enough different opinions
about running wrong size wheels on steel bikes that I decided to try to
parse out those which clearly come from experience and knowledge. In the
spirit of sharing, here is my summary of internet wisdom on the topic:
Hi Ginz,
Yes, the XO uses a 47.5mm chain line. Rear wheel is a Shimano 300LX hub,
with a Shimano 7sp cassette. (The front hub still has the sticker on it,
and that says Exage HB-RM50).
Do you think I should add washers to the axle to get closer to 135mm?
Thanks,
Eric
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Thanks for the feedback and advice! It’s nice to know I won’t be seen as
too gauche using old parts on this frame :-)
The old bottom bracket is definitely asymmetrical. My digital calipers
think it is 119.63 overall, 19.36 on the left and 23.72 on the right, but
Sheldon Brown says 121 mm BB
Hi,
I just bought a New Old Stock 2009 Sam Hillborne 60cm frame, and am going
through the travails of building it out. This is my first Rivendell and
I'm pretty excited about it, but it is also my first full build and I'm
finding out all sorts of stuff I didn't know.
It feels slightly sacrile
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