RBW has put out some excellent greens over the years. The Hillborne is very eye
catching, but so were the stock color green editions of the Rambouillet and
Quickbeam. I am very fond of the metallic sage green of my early Saluki too. It
came to me from another cyclist, so I don't know it it was a
Right, but i don't think those clamps will fit these bikes, unless
they have the old skinnier downtubes. It seems like the last time this
topic went around (maybe it was the BOB list), there isn't a clamp
available for oversize steel tubing.
That's a lovely frame - thanks for excellent photos, Br
Hey Eric,
Yes, I tried to ensure that the color was a accurate as possible.
The frame has a really rich metallic green ... something that is
unique but by no means gaudy. Both the decals and the fork detail is
a rich cream color, and the bands around the decals are a purplish
blue.
Bryan @ Ren
> You can't go doing too many things that will raise the price. I myself
> don't like downtube shifters anymore, but I remember once having no
> problem mounting one of those clamp-on things to hold them on an old
> Trek that didn't have the braze-ons.
Well there is a point! For the Simplex affi
Bleriots didn't have them, either.
DE
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Garth wrote:
>
> Wow, I hadn't noticed that until now either about the missing DT
> shifter braze ons. I would have thought it would have them because you
> can always add the cable stops, but not vice versa. It was a desig
You can't go doing too many things that will raise the price. I myself
don't like downtube shifters anymore, but I remember once having no
problem mounting one of those clamp-on things to hold them on an old
Trek that didn't have the braze-ons. So good decision if it kept the
cost down.
On Ma
Wow, I hadn't noticed that until now either about the missing DT
shifter braze ons. I would have thought it would have them because you
can always add the cable stops, but not vice versa. It was a design
decision, assuming you'd be using bar ends,brifters or thumb shifters.
They can't please eve
The pictures are nice, and it appears quite the bike.
Until looking at these, I had somehow missed altogether the Hillborne
is not set up for braze on down tube shifters though. It seems those
of us who still prefer DT shifters are getting farther and fewer
between, as I cannot recall this bein
on 5/1/09 3:02 PM, Bryan @ Renaissance Bicycles wrote:
> We took a little time today to put the new Sam Hillborne frameset
> under the studio lights:
>
> http://www.renaissancebicycles.com/gallery/
>
> Take a look and let me know if you have any questions about the
> details. We will post more
Thanks. Nice to see some close ups. The lugs look even nicer in
close-up. Especially the cut-outs behind the head tube. And the
front of the seat tube lug.
Is the highlight on the fork cream (like the Atlantis) or off-white?
Eric Platt
St. Paul, MN
On May 1, 5:02�pm, "Bryan @ Renaissance B
i'm thinking a lugged frameset with sloping top tube is a good GP
idea. if for no other reason, to the best of my knowledge, the only
other readily available "sloping" lugs come at quite the price from
Kirk Pacenti and maybe Waterford. See a Sam in person, you might want
one more than ya think.
A little unrelated, but just poking around a bit on your very cool site, and
was wondering if the bars pictured on the your Soma Mixte are upside down
Albatross bars:
http://www.renaissancebicycles.com/soma/soma-mixte/
> From: "Bryan @ Renaissance Bicycles"
> Reply-To:
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009
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