till have lugged Roadinis on the production
>> schedule and the limited edition $2800 Roadeo frame by Nobilette available
>> and the HH which slot into the fun, pretty,practical slot...Hillborne would
>> fall into this category tooso they do still make them.
>>
>&
I don't know that I have a "grail Rivendell." I do know that I want a Clem
somethin' fierce, or even better a Platy set up pretty much the same way,
but sprightlier and prettier. I was, and am, deeply into what the various
sporting road Rivs had going on, when they still made that kind of bike.
I mean, did anybody think it was likely to, even before this got posted? I
know I didn't... just figured it was another episode of the "Grant's a
weirdo" show.
--Shannon
On Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 9:57:24 AM UTC-7 Nick Shoemaker wrote:
> Should we take this to mean the kids bike won't be hap
These early-90s Cannondales have another little secret: The H-series
hybrids also used the Touring frame and fork. They just put flat bars and
down-spec parts on them. I had an H300 that I converted into a Rivend-ish
like the ones here. That's were I learned that my hands despise moustache
bars
ago — I used both 47/44 and 48/45 combos (25”
>> wheels) but I’ve not looked since.
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM Shannon Menkveld
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Shimano 9-speed 12-36 is a half-stepper's dream cluster:
>>>
>>> 12-14-16-18-21-
The Shimano 9-speed 12-36 is a half-stepper's dream cluster:
12-14-16-18-21-24-28-32-36
Makes for a 7-9% half step with any of:
- 48/45 (107 - 33.4 inches)
- 45/42 (100" - 31.2", probably what I would build. 45t chainrings are
limited to 110 bcd, so far as I can tell.)
- 42/39 (29"
Part of my very-long-post that got eaten was a discussion of the goodness
of the 48/34 as opposed to the 46/34 on an evenly-spaced cassette of around
15%. The 46/34 is an overlapping mess with every cassette I looked at.
Contrariwise, not only does the 48/34 maximize practical range for a road
I had a very long and detailed post about this, which, of course, got
eaten. So the short, short version is this:
Use the 48 and the 34. 48/34 x 9 speed 12-36, or it's siblings, the 8-speed
12-32 and the SRAM (not Shimano) 10-speed 11-36 is money for a wide-range
double for a general-puspose sp
What about Simplex Retrofrictions? Mine wrapped very little cable, such
that swinging a Campy Croce d'Aune across a full 7-speed cluster required
about 3 o'clock to 10 o'clock worth of lever travel. (With the centerline
of the downtube running from 3:00 at the head lug to 9:00 at the BB.) And
t
I 2nd MapDashBoard, with one caveat: The fields in the 6-field version are
pretty small. If that's an issue, there's a 4-field version. I've used
both, but haven't decided which one I'll be sticking with long-term. (I
just got the Garmin.)
The other IQ-store data field I use all the time is Win
orting app / website doesn't allow you to do it offline.
>
> --Shannon
>
> On Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 7:49:03 PM UTC-7 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!
> wrote:
>
> I’m thinking more all the time that I’d like the convenience of one of
> these little computers. One thing I
I will say here, now that I know whose bike it is the same thing that I
said on Instagram when I didn't:
Pretty. Just so, so pretty.
I'm not surprised that it rides as wonderfully as it looks. Just a complete
and utter knockout.
--Shannon
On Monday, July 7, 2025 at 7:17:57 PM UTC-7 dwain...@gm
If this is the shop I think it is, in Oakland, then I got the last one in
the display case, along with a set of Mafac "Racer"s. (That's how I type
it, 'cuz it's funner that way.) Along with a bunch of other parts and bits
as I've tuned the Probable Peugeot PKN-10 to my needs and wants. If the
r
bike shop because I so rarely buy anything from
> them but service (though we did get an e-bike this year). The College Clem
> is getting some work done, so I’ll ask about the computer when I pick that
> bike up.
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2025, at 10:08 PM, Shannon Menkveld
> wrote:
Additional data point:
My 1985 League Fuji has a 45/42/30x14-26 6-speed half-step. (The weirdness
was to allow low gears with the freewheels I had and a 1980 Suntour Superbe
rear derailleur, plus I'd always wanted to try half-stepping.) The front is
a Suntour AR double, since most triple fronts
Gorgeous. Just a special, special bicycle.
--Shannon
On Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 10:21:39 AM UTC-7 stephen@gmail.com wrote:
> 👋 Wanted to say hello and share some pics of my Charlie Gallop:
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZKiEEHztqqw8Uysw9
>
> Big thanks to everyone at Riv for making the process
I'm new to the GPS bike computer party, but I had mag-sensor ones for
years. I just got so irritated with using my phone as the actual navigation
device that I started looking around at GPS units.
And it ended up that I bought one, and started using it, and, as I climb
the learning curve, which
Dude!
I'm so right there with you. Last October, I ended up in the hospital with
an almost-fatal GI bleed and a failing liver. (MELD score of 29.) After
spending six weeks in two hospitals, I was discharged into a veterans'
transitional housing program, where I've been living since Thanksgiving
I'm running a 48/34 using the 110 tabs on a Sugino VT. Coupled with a 12-32
8-speed cassette, it makes for nice gearing for an un- to lightly-loaded
road bike. There's also the other way around... use the inner 110s and the
74. Crust is doing this with their Heartbreaker crankset... a 42/26t,
1
There may be a Rivendellian and non-plastified solution to the grip issue:
Bar tape, wool felt, twine, shellac, that kinda thing.
--Shannon
On Monday, May 19, 2025 at 2:33:57 PM UTC-7 Collin B. wrote:
> I have to second all who have recommended the cable cutters and chain
> breaker. They're
While it doesn't interest me, and even if it did the proprietary tires
would be a deal breaker, the idea isn't fundamentally terrible.
The two obvious use cases I can think of would be:
1) On urban utility / commute / cargo bikes, where you're running some
gawdawful SuperUltraMarathon Tyre of
Yeah, that's what I had in mind. The one on the left is the real one, of
course, but the carbonized modern race bike feels less wrong than the OP
bike does when next to an XO-1. At least to me, anyway. I can't really
figure out why.
--Shannon
On Friday, May 9, 2025 at 10:30:21 AM UTC-7 wboe..
I'd throw the 1989 (I think) Specialized RockCombo in there as well. Really
neat bike that, like the XO1, flopped like a flounder on the floor. I think
only 500 were ever made. Drop bars, "Miami Vice" paintjob, 26" wheels...
I've always wanted one. Or a modern clone, with the same paint and deca
On Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 2:31:14 PM UTC-7 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!
wrote:
Patrick! Get a Platypus, ride off into the sunset and never look back.
There is just nothing like a Platypus!
Well, echidnas are pretty similar...
--Shannon
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Leah -
It looks from the pictures that Charlie's got enough room for one of the
smaller Carradice bags. A Barley or Pendle would fit for sure, and a
Lowsaddle Longflap wouldn't surprise me. That would allow you to carry a
load between "a couple of bananas" and "the kitchen sink"... maybe like a
That they are.
Over on the Classic & Vintage BikeForum, there was a thread about which
rear derailleur you would pick if you could only pick one. Given the
parameters that this would be the derailleur that had to go on every bike
you owned or would ever own, I picked the weird blue pointy 9 sp
Oh, shoulda pointed out that I liked both bikes a lot, but they're hella
different.
--Shannon
On Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 4:38:59 PM UTC-7 Shannon Menkveld wrote:
> Even from an around-the-industrial-park test ride, the difference was
> obvious. Jamming and sprinting on the Char
Even from an around-the-industrial-park test ride, the difference was
obvious. Jamming and sprinting on the Charlie was fun. Jamming and
sprinting on the Clem was pointless. James called the Clem "our ATB for the
apocalypse." Whatever Charlie H. Gallop is, he's very much not that.
--Shannon
On
Ahh, the Ramboulliet. I don't think Grant would agree, but I think the Ram
is one of the Rivviest Rivs that Riv ever Riv'ed.
--Shannon
On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 9:47:58 AM UTC-7 iamkeith wrote:
> I chuckled at that too. But it's nothing new from them (see Rambouillet
> catalog, circa 2006,
Is the Gallop dropbarable without a weirdo stem?
--Shannon
On Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 9:48:41 AM UTC-7 Dorothy C wrote:
> [image: IMG_0822.jpeg]Kat, the Gallop has a kickstand plate too, which I
> wish the Roadini had, even though it is unconventional on a road bike. I do
> without on my lug
I've always liked the look of the Lambdas, but they've always looked too
small for my #13s, and it's an expensive thing to get wrong. Nice work!
--Shannon
On Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 8:18:45 AM UTC-7 krhe...@gmail.com wrote:
> @Nick,
>
> You are more than welcome.
> If and when you decide to
Tallest, what's the story on that rack? I've not seem anything like it
before.
--Shannon
On Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 9:16:20 AM UTC-7 tal...@gmail.com wrote:
> So many great bikes here. Thanks for the inspiration.
>
> Put my VO fenders back on the Cross Check and thought I'd share. This is
That ano is the business! Where'd you get it done?
As to the Charlie as a bike, I didn't get it when I first saw it. It's kind
of a weird bike at first glance: semi-step-through frame, swept bars...
caliper brakes? It didn't make sense. Then I visited Riv WHQ, and actually
rode the thing. And n
Allow me to tip my hat to Dave Kirk, as well. That looks like a fantastic
all-weather sport bike.
--Shannon
On Friday, April 4, 2025 at 3:33:53 PM UTC-7 cjus...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Steve! Yes, custom Clockwork Bikes racks. I really like the
> innovative and minimalist design of the rear
Please to share article?
--Shannon
On Friday, April 4, 2025 at 6:25:44 AM UTC-7 Eric Daume wrote:
> Somewhere I have that magazine article, they compare a Riv AR to a
> Cannondale full suspension mountain bike.
>
> Eric
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM Ted Durant wrote:
>
>> My Apple News fe
I remember pro MTB racers using Dura Ace rear derailleurs back in the late
80's / early 90s. Lighter, a bit more ground clearance, and those guys
were strong enough to never need more than a 1:1 gear, so why not?
Suntour's whole "MicroDrive" thing was basically the same idea, just
marketed dif
Only problem is rattle in the cage that needs to be addressed.
Cotton bar tape? Hemp twine? Something like that, that you've already got
laying around.
--Shannon
On Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 5:16:09 PM UTC-7 George Schick wrote:
> If you can get ahold of one of the old style Klean Kanteen
Can it be operated with one hand? Can it be squeezed? The 1st is a
non-negotiable for me, and the other almost is. The large Specialized
bottles were (are still?) the business. Worked great and were cheap,
especially out of the big bin at J. Random Cyclery, full of bottles
screen-printed with t
Grant: "The new bike is a street-only Clem."
Also Grant: "Here's a picture of me riding it on dirt."
--Shannon
On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 11:14:38 AM UTC-7 dane...@gmail.com wrote:
> lol
>
> On Monday, March 31, 2025 at 10:53:53 AM UTC-4 Michael Connors wrote:
>
>> "Grant calls it a street-on
First, riders haven't had to fix their own race bikes since the "Googles
and Dust" era, and even then it was mostly because Henri Desgrange was an
utter, flaming asshole... races that he didn't run were much more lenient.
And, as a spectator sport, somebody brazing their fork back together at 10
(April) 1st of all, I'm betting that you got trolled. More importantly,
riding a bike quickly around a paved loop to and from your door, (H/T
Maynard Hershon, "roadies ride from the door",) just for fun and fitness
and because you can, is not a less legitimate use of a bicycle than riding
one t
Thanks, Bill. Doug's got a cool bike.
--Shannon
On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 4:34:01 PM UTC-7 Bill Lindsay wrote:
> That's most likely my friend Doug. The panniers are Rivendell "brand V".
>
> Bill Lindsay
> El Cerrito, CA
> On Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 4:11:25 PM UTC-7 shannon@gmail.com
If you do end up using zip-ties, make sure you use the outdoor-rated black
ones. The white ones get degraded by sunlight and nasty stuff in the air,
so they get brittle and break. Depending on where you live, it can happen
in just a few months.
Yeah, they cost more, and they stand out and your
On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 6:00:26 PM UTC-7 sjwi... wrote:
I think I have an old XT MTB RD in my parts bin so just need to find a
nice looking (silver!) 110/74 BCD crankset on eBay and that will hopefully
sort me out.
I'm a big fan of the Shimano Deore FC-MT60 crank. Light, pretty, & str
er on the Platypus or another bike. Call it
> 'future proofing'.
> Steve
> On Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 11:49:42 PM UTC-4 Shannon Menkveld wrote:
>
>> As an aside, the Shimano 9-speed 12-36 might be the single most versatile
>> gear cluster ever made.
>>
As an aside, the Shimano 9-speed 12-36 might be the single most versatile
gear cluster ever made.
It's a 12-14-16-18-21-24-28-32-26, so you've got 13%, 14%, and 17% jumps
between cogs. On a 700Cx32 tire, a 45t gives a 102 inch top gear, and a 48
gets you to 108.
And the fun is just beginning
Even though the sale is over, I figured I'd chime in on the shoes:
They're the closest thing I've found to the early 80's touring shoes.
The soles (on the basic version, which is what I have) are stiff enough to
ride hard, road-style, (on the balls of the feet, with clips & straps,) and
soft en
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