Re: [RBW] Craigslist, etc 2024

2024-07-20 Thread Josh C
59 Atlantis FF https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bik/d/danville-rivendell-atlantis-frame-fork/7767782425.html On Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 11:26:07 PM UTC-4 Steven Sweedler wrote: > The early AR’s were 26”, later ones especially the larger sizes were 700 > c. Grant didn’t like look of the very

Re: [RBW] Re: WTB: 60cm Cheviot (NH+)

2024-07-20 Thread Josh C
-Nic, That's awesome, I'm glad that one worked out. I kept looking at it and as he lowered the price it became more and more enticing. I would have bought it but I've got several bikes that overlap with the Cheviot. I'd love to see how you set it up if you've got pictures. On Friday, July 19,

[RBW] Re: Electric Bikes and Organized Rides

2024-07-20 Thread Joe Bernard
I support the Class 1 pedalecs with 20mph top speed on centuries. A century isn't really a group ride, I've done many by myself and was passing small groups and being passed by other small groups all day so, an ebike going by me wouldn't seem unusual. Of course range is the limiter here, most eb

[RBW] Sam Hillborne seatpost

2024-07-20 Thread Ron Cramer
It is probably on the website and I missed it. What seatpost on the new Sam Hillborne: 26.8 or 27.2? Thanks -- 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 r

Re: [RBW] Northern Hemisphere Summer 2024 Photos

2024-07-20 Thread Jay
I love all the photos and variety of locations and landscapes. Keep'em coming On Friday, July 19, 2024 at 9:56:09 AM UTC-4 Nicholas A wrote: > The sky matching my handlebar tape yesterday. > > [image: IMG_9624.jpg] > > On Thursday 18 July 2024 at 01:56:37 UTC+1 Gill wrote: > >> [image: IMG_000

[RBW] Re: Upright / Relaxed / Swept-Back - Style of Riding

2024-07-20 Thread Jay
Update: I'm swapping the bars on my Salsa Fargo. Going with the VO Granola. I can use them with stems I have on hand, just had to add brake levers, grips and a Sram Apex flat bar shifter. Need hew cables/housing anyway, so all-in-all the experiment won't break the bank. I'll report back in

[RBW] Re: Electric Bikes and Organized Rides

2024-07-20 Thread 'aeroperf' via RBW Owners Bunch
Which brings up other good points about E-bikes. We’re in the “Look out, Martha! He’ll run down the kids and scare the horses” phase of E-bikes now, like the safety bike was in 1895. There are currently three “classes” of E-bike in the US, and at least 4 in the EU. And that’s aside from people

[RBW] Re: Electric Bikes and Organized Rides

2024-07-20 Thread 'peech1...@yahoo.com' via RBW Owners Bunch
I agree with George Schick on this one since I see increasing numbers of e bikes on the trails generally ridden by people who wouldn't be out there, riding much faster than I can ride, coming up fast behind me without any sort of announcement and startling me. I don't like e bikes for that rea

RE: [RBW] Re: Electric Bikes and Organized Rides

2024-07-20 Thread Bernard Duhon
One huge difference is a “lycra lout” as you , called them, going 25 mph may have bad manners but he has been riding a while and probably a pretty good bike handler. However a newbie going even 15 miles an hour his electric bike is a danger to everyone on the road. Including himself. When w

[RBW] Re: Sam Hillborne seatpost

2024-07-20 Thread Johnny Alien
27.2 For some reason I feel like there is some rule of thumb like...lugged frames are 27.2 and tigged or filet brazed or different. I am probably wrong about that. On Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 10:08:47 AM UTC-4 Ron Cramer wrote: > It is probably on the website and I missed it. What seatpost o

Re: [RBW] WTF a 26.0 Albastache for my questionable Canti Rom?

2024-07-20 Thread 'jinxed' via RBW Owners Bunch
Albastache acquired, thank you for the replies. Also thank you for the responses regarding the frame. As luck (good/bad?) would have it, a few days after this post I received an email from Rivendell that there was a 54 Hillborne in stock, and I immediately jumped on it. Not the smartest of fina

[RBW] Re: FS: 1988-89 Matching "His & Hers" Stumpjumpers w/ Platypus Complete Build

2024-07-20 Thread Jacob Kersey
Thanks for the insight Armand & Reginald! I'm realizing based on the responses that my query (and poor attempt at whimsy) read like an indictment of U-brakes, which wasn't my intention. I was mostly curious about the different brake placement on two seemingly identical frames, which Armand help

Re: [RBW] Re: Sam Hillborne seatpost

2024-07-20 Thread Ron Cramer
Thanks! On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, 11:40 AM Johnny Alien wrote: > 27.2 > > For some reason I feel like there is some rule of thumb like...lugged > frames are 27.2 and tigged or filet brazed or different. I am probably > wrong about that. > > On Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 10:08:47 AM UTC-4 Ron Cramer

[RBW] Re: Sam Hillborne seatpost

2024-07-20 Thread Ryan
Believe it or not(get a life, Ryan) - I couldn't find seat post diameter anywhere on SH specs on the RBW site or in any of the newsletter specs for later iterations of this frame...but as a counter-example for Johnny Alien, I do remember Leah's quest for a nicer long-setback post for her Platyp

[RBW] Re: Goals for 2024 (will they be S.M.A.R.T. ?)

2024-07-20 Thread Bill Lindsay
Because I've gotten in the habit, I have kept my streak going of riding to the top of Mount Diablo every month in 2024. My seventh month in a row was on my seventh different bike. It was HOT, but nowhere near as bad as it could have been. The max I saw on my Wahoo was 37C. I can see a path

[RBW] Re: Sam Hillborne seatpost

2024-07-20 Thread Johnny Alien
There you goI was completely wrong on that lugged part. :) I will say I owned a SH back in the day and it was 27.2 BUT they could have changed that as things have indeed changed on their bikes over the years. On Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 3:01:48 PM UTC-4 Ryan wrote: > Believe it or not(get

Re: [RBW] Northern Hemisphere Summer 2024 Photos

2024-07-20 Thread Kim H.
@Randy, Beautiful countryside. ... jealous of your summer weather being cool and green. Kim Hetzel. On Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 1:01:18 PM UTC-7 larson@gmail.com wrote: > [image: IMG_2776.jpeg][image: IMG_2779.jpeg][image: IMG_2774.jpeg][image: > IMG_2780.jpeg][image: IMG_2773.jpeg]We

[RBW] Re: Sam Hillborne seatpost

2024-07-20 Thread Ray Varella
Blue Lug lists 26.8 in their specs for Sams Ray On Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 12:54:04 PM UTC-7 Johnny Alien wrote: > There you goI was completely wrong on that lugged part. :) > > I will say I owned a SH back in the day and it was 27.2 BUT they could > have changed that as things have ind

Re: [RBW] Re: Electric Bikes and Organized Rides

2024-07-20 Thread Patrick Moore
A local bike industry representative recently proposed a bill to the City of ABQ Council for blanket legal permission for all types of e-bikes along with a 20 mph speed limit, the limit to be moral and legal, not technological. My first reaction was, "Yeah, sure, and you will enforce this exactly h

Re: [RBW] F/s

2024-07-20 Thread Patrick Moore
Bill: I"ll take the panniers. Thanks, Patrick Moore On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 5:26 PM Bill Fulford wrote: > Dreaming of that big bike tour? I may have some help. > Nitto big back rack. Lightly used &125. Ortlieb bike packer panniers, > lightly used $125. Plus shipping. Contact directly. > > -- >

[RBW] Re: FS: Campy 9 Sp Brifters, Crust Bars, Brooks

2024-07-20 Thread Andrew Joseph
Update, All prices are shipped to you. -Brooks Swift Honey - Pending -Rivendell 90-190, (85, 31.8 clamp) - $100 -Crust Shaka bars (by Nitto) 560 width, 31.8 clamp $100 -Campagnolo Mirage 9 speed brifters - SOLD -Sackville bar tube bag - SOLD -PNW 31.8 drop bar + 80 Velo Orange quill stem - $

[RBW] broken shift cable with silver shifter

2024-07-20 Thread Richard Rose
I've never seen this before so thought I'd share. Weird? https://photos.app.goo.gl/5NLkjz7cK3yCvgck8 -- 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-owne

Re: [RBW] Craigslist, etc 2024

2024-07-20 Thread Matthew Williams
Protovelo / 2015 Appaloosa 47cm $3200 Seattle, WA https://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/bik/d/silverdale-2015-rivendell-joe-appaloosa/7758649064.html  -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop r

[RBW] Re: broken shift cable with silver shifter

2024-07-20 Thread Max S
Just out of curiosity, did you have it set up as a bar-end or a thumb-shifter or a downtube shifter? Reason I ask: A few months ago I set up a bike with the Silver v.2 shifter on a Paul Thumbie mount and noticed that the cable would rub on the side of the cable hole as it entered the pod. I a