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, even while looking nice, and (2) it shows dust too easily --
I ride in a dusty environment.
In order of preference -- and see! This exercise did help me choose!
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Now you know what the next two bikes are going to look l
dells tubeless. Please let us know how tubeless is working out for
you and any pros and cons you note on your rides.
At any rate, the bike looks lovely and also fast.
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Also, Joe is right about the roads here - they’re nice.
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Right day, wrong lesson: today he learned to be more mindful of what he
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Yes, but you can't learn stuff like the difference between too loose,
just right and oh shit from a video.
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RBW is a place where we talk about paleo fad diets and fishing rods,
about brewing coffee and tea, about home grown organic tobacco and
esoteric word salads generated by an artificial intelligence on
psychedelics. This is not Classic Rendezvous. There's
group software can't
delete already delivered emails and doesn't provide a way to lock a
topic so that email replies to already received emails in the discussion
topic aren't delivered.
From a moderator / list owner's perspective, this makes the moderation
job more complic
There's no list that can. It's as incendiary a topic for a bicycling
list as you could come up with.
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boiled eggs, flipping a bike
upside down to change a tire), and now we have Grant's Blahg about
racism. So my question is: what is and is not RBW-related? I'm not
being facetious, because it seems RBW is kind of a controversial business.
I'm not going to start any disc
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In my case, always and ranging from minimal to extensive.
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mech, I include
airplane motors droning away high above, and very distant lawn mowers
and chainsaws on a late summer early fall day.
Sprinklers can have a nice mechanically induced ticking sound. Not in
this category at any distance would be snow blowers, leaf blowers,
weed wackers.
Steve
in the face of
frugality used to bother me. But, having experienced it when I first
started taking this medication, I know that the frustration and
discomfort of having my hands become useless while I'm trying to change
a flat by the side of the road bothers me a lot more.
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first bead - and I needed to use tools to do it, too. Just ridiculous.
A sublime ride, but the mean time between flats was very short, as was
their service life. You can get the same or better ride with a lot
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Frame pump, tube, patch kit, tire irons
Pocket pistol (.22 mag)
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er in front
than an eye educated by looking at plastic fenders would consider "proper."
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With abandon,
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I like what you've done with the front extra support strut. I
kind of wonder about the rear fender line -- that's a lot of
hing else?
With abandon,
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Just be careful of one thing. DO NOT attempt to adjust fender
line by pulling on the fender struts.
Yes, that's how you do it with plastic fenders. Doing it with
aluminu
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i am thinking newer may not be better. you?
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Brooks
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does appear the Boulder Bikes has a couple of black
Mente in stock.
Another option to look at is Rivet. Their saddles are nice as well and
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of the bikes had baskets,
and all 4 had racks. Yeah, nightmare.
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well.
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e like long
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Mente saddle on one of my bikes -
you can clearly see that the bag loops on the saddle are too close
together for the bag.
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slots on the Aspin/Aravis.
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binding, but often for me this has been a "go to a good bike shop" issue.
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drag or
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ebay I mentioned is Alivio so on the lower end of the spectrum. I'm
using a Suntour thumb shifter in friction so I think I could make 10
speed work. However there's something about the ease of setup and
maintenance of 9 speed shifting that makes me want to stay in that world.
The
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Laing
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For most road drivetrains (i.e., not 26" wheel
All this discussion of mixtes on the list has made me curious.
I’ve never ridden a mixte. Other than mounting/dismounting, do
owners of both types of bikes experience any real differences
between riding a mixte and riding a diamond frame?
Mixte-curious Melanie
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On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 09:04 -0800, Earl Grey wrote:
> Okay, reasonable, but then why put them only in the wider models which
> are designed for more leisurely, presumably less sweat-producing
> riding?
The B.17 is a very old design. I believe it originated in the 19th
century, but I know for cert
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 18:13 -0600, Joan Oppel wrote:
>
> 2) I saw many many more steel bikes yesterday than I see in the DC
> area, I mean, more in one day yesterday than I see in a month or two!
> I saw an Atlantis and a Hillborne and spoke to both but they just said
> hello and went on by.
>
I
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:44 -0800, William wrote:
> There were two things I disliked about the SunRace thumbshifters on my
> wife's Yves Gomez
>
> 1. Can't get the clamp tight enough. On CroMo Alba bars, they slip
> and slide. Maybe with Aluminum bars they could dig in and hold. the
> wimpy st
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 08:10 -0800, Jan Heine wrote:
> > to get people on bicycles, you don't want to force them to wear a helmet
> > and imply that they are doing something more dangerous than driving.
>
> The same arguments were made when Preston Tucker wanted to include
> seatbelts in his car
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 15:06 -0700, pcooley wrote:
>
> I guess it's also worth pointing out that the statistics come from the
> Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute. That's hardly an unbiased source. I
> would accept Bicycle Quarterly as being somewhat more authoritative.
>
Why is BHSI "biased," in
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 16:11 -0700, Kris wrote:
> Anyone been on the ski slopes recently? Talk about creating a market
> out of nothing! I don't know ANYONE who has ever taken a serious
> knock while skiing, but suddenly 30%+ of the market is wearing a
> shell.
>
"Who is Sonny Bono?"
http://en.w
On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 19:18 -0700, RonaTD wrote:
>
> On Mar 16, 11:10 am, Jan Heine wrote:
> > At Bicycle Quarterly, we are considering looking at the statistics
> > and figuring out whether helmets make riding safer, whether risk
> > compensation really is a factor, etc
>
> As somebody who make
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 12:23 -0700, bicyclebill wrote:
> I watched with interest the recent thread regarding Thumbies and
> Silver Shifters. I have a different question: I am thinking about
> Thumbies with my Shimano 8-speed bar-ends. Is there any issue with
> routing the cables and a front bag?
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 09:47 -0700, Pondero wrote:
> "Do you think the 5 lbs alone, between the Trek and Ebisu is enough to
> effect the performance?"
>
> To answer that question, you need to have a very clear understanding
> of "performance for what?" To provide a couple of extreme examples,
> pe
On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 23:41 -0700, pb wrote:
> Stop by your local "pro" shop. Borrow something along the lines of a
> Cervelo R3 or a some Specialized S-Works or a Moots Vamoots or some
> such. Take it out for a brisk 25 miles of hills. That may be a short
> cut to the answer you seek. Let us k
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 12:33 -0700, Anne Paulson wrote:
> I don't understand how I could possibly have something that I could
> call a commute bike that weighed 23 pounds. Commute bikes, by their
> very nature, have fenders, lights and some kind of bag or basket.
You might very well think so, but d
take that carbon race bike on a century. Ride it at
whatever speed you like to ride a century. In my experience, comfort
really starts to matter when the distance goes up, and 100 miles is just
about long enough to qualify as a "long" distance.
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 13:58 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> Steve, listen: the crabon wunder might well be hell on a century, slow
> or not. That's not the point. The point is, for a fast 25 mile ride it
> might be quite fun; in fact, in certain ways, MORE fun than a 30 lb
> bike for that fast 25 mil
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 07:03 -0700, Patrick in VT wrote:
> On Mar 23, 8:34 am, ewb wrote:
> > Do you have any tips to help prevent pinch flats?
>
> Are you sure it was a pinch flat? I imagine it would take the mother
> of all potholes to pinch flat a 50mm tire - even a somewhat
> underinflated 50
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 06:09 -0700, Rene Sterental wrote:
> That is correct. No decaleur is needed. The straps to the handlebar
> make it very stable.
One big reason to use a decaleur is that it provides some stand-off from
the handlebar. Strapping a bag to the bars steals away most of the top
of
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:06 -0700, William wrote:
> "While the Berthoud looks very stable, I don't like the paperclip as
> cotter pin.
> For that price, it should be something more substantial."
>
> Please! Mine came with a safety pin, not a paperclip ;)
>
> But seriously, if you think something
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 13:39 -0700, Patrick in VT wrote:
> On Mar 24, 3:19 pm, William wrote:
>
> > I'm sure lots of folks feel the VO is 'just as good' as the Berthoud
> > for less than 1/3 the price, just like lots of folks feel that a Surly
> > LHT is just as good as a Rivendell Atlantis.
>
>
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 13:24 -0700, LBleriot wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion. When I used a stem mounted dex, the bag
> lifted off the rack a bit (because of the height of the headset/
> headtube)
Or, more like, because you had the wrong size bag.
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On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:07 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> Give us a report of how you like it after you've put a couple of
> hundred miles on it. I go back and forth with one of these: with
> loads, hills and winds all against me I tell myself I'll get something
> to gear me down, but then I medita
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 12:14 -0700, MichaelH wrote:
> If you are
> putting a nice pair of Honjo Hammered (which would look great on this
> bike) then the first choice should be Paul's Racer Ms, unless you are
> really up for scouring the internet for old school and using a
> crescent wrench to set t
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 16:40 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
>
> But of course this is all academic since I now have reached the
> ultimate and true indexing which requires flipping the wheel in the
> dropouts.
So, you have recovered from your fit of apostasy and are now back on the
thorny path to vir
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 19:55 -0600, Rene Sterental wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thank you very much for all the responses and suggestions. I'm quite
> eager to try the one about turning the saddle nose slightly in the
> direction of the seat bone that bears more weight, which if I
> understood correctly w
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 15:17 -0700, Rene Sterental wrote:
> I work for UPS and didn't think it was funny at all!!! I started
> trying to locate it for you as a fellow Rivendeller only to have to
> apologize to everyone I started pushing to find out what had happened.
>
> I guess you are laughing no
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 10:56 -0700, Lemon wrote:
> For those folks who use SKS Fenders, what tool do you use to trim/cut
> the ends of the stays after you get the installation dialed in?
> Something other than a saw, perhaps? Thanks for your input.
I use bolt cutters.
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On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 13:39 -0500, John Blish wrote:
> For lack of decent bolt cutters I have used a hacksaw and also a
> Dremel-like tool. The advantage of the bolt cutters is that you do
> not have to take the stays off to do the job. Hacksaw, I took them
> back off and with Dremel tool I did i
On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 17:14 -0700, EricP wrote:
> I thought Patrick was tough enough to just bite 'em off.
Yes, if you grind your teeth enough you can wear through just about
anything.
>
> Otherwise, for mere mortals like myself, it's a rotary tool (Black and
> Decker version) cut off tool and
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 08:35 -0700, Zaelia wrote:
> I'm also a lurker. I haven't posted simply because I've not much to
> say, but this thread is bringing me out of the shadows (if only
> briefly)...
>
> Here is a picture of my AHH...
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcaddick/5587292295/
Nice! Is
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 14:16 -0700, Zaelia wrote:
> Members of my club have on occasion asked me about my man. They seemed
> quite puzzled by the fact that he doesn't really ride. I guess we do
> sort of break the stereotype. When I was younger and a little less
> secure about my relationship, I cal
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 20:30 -0700, Eric Norris wrote:
> Campagnolo Rally. Friction shifting ... Retro ... Beautiful ... Is
> there any other choice?
Sure. SunTour VGT Luxe.
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On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:51 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> I owned and used a couple of VGTs and didn't find that they shifted
> all that well; perhaps I am just inexperienced in the more mundane
> models available at the time. I know that I was surprised at how much
> better an old, early '80s, jus
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 15:08 -0700, Aaron Thomas wrote:
>
> The kickstand plate seems to limit the versatility of the frame,
> without really giving you any significant benefits. After all, you can
> always add a kickstand to a frame without a plate.
Yes, sure, if you're willing to risk the chance
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 18:14 -0700, EricP wrote:
> Winter riding. Even with full coverage fenders, snow/salt/slush
> accumulate on a plate. I still argue this can lead to early corrosion
> of the stays when it builds up over a few winters.
Certainly not a problem here in Northern Virginia.
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On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 21:10 -0700, William wrote:
> I'd buy one of those Rivendells, if they didn't all need one of those
> 'signature' drivetrains. Drivetrains just act as a shelf to collect
> mud. I'm going to order one of those drivetrainless bikes, so I can
> remain mud free when I slog throu
On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 13:51 -0700, William wrote:
> Jim
>
> It's true that most freewheels can be removed with a big wrench. Most
> of the freewheels that are too much for a wrench can be removed by a
> vise. Those that cannot be removed with a vice are few. If it's been
> on for 10+ years and
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:16 -0700, Rex Kerr wrote:
> Not trying to hijack the thread, but it looks like you already have
> your answer... anybody know of a similar idea for lifting a bike with
> a frame pump? I'm accustomed to lifting my commuting/touring bike by
> grabbing the top tube just in f
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 07:29 -0700, Mike wrote:
> I picked up the rando frame yesterday and it's beautiful...
> unfortunately I decided to use the new VO high flange hubs for the
> wheels. The hubs are actually fine, what's not fine is the damned IRD
> 6spd FW. Already the thing is giving me grief!
On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 09:02 -0700, Mike wrote:
> Yeah, I hear you Steve. I've been following that VO blog post. I sure
> do like that gearing but I may need to move back to an 8spd cassette
> for piece of mind.
Have you considered a 7 speed cassette? There are more, and in my
opinion, better gea
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 11:48 -0700, Minh wrote:
> I'd be slow to damn all freewheels because of this. The ird ones have
> a bad rep. And it's too bad it is still happening ihqve one and still
> seeing these reports are making me nervous.
No, there /used to be/ many absolutely wonderful freewheels.
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 11:40 -0700, rob markwardt wrote:
> The double top tube is becoming a rivendell signature. I prefer the
> cream head tube.
+1
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On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 04:02 -0700, islaysteve wrote:
> BTW, I plan to carry a spare tube but that may be overkill
> considering the wider tires and thicker tubes, compared to the road
> stuff that I'm used to. Do most of you carry a spare tube or not?
Actually, I carry three plus a patch kit.
Wh
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 15:04 -0700, rperks wrote:
> If I want a "road" bike, no matter what the percieved
> light and fast marketing schtik is, it will likely be built for the
> potential heavy weight.
I think it's pretty safe to say your LBS carbon fiber racing bike with
the lightly spoked wheels
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 11:32 -1000, Robert F. Harrison wrote:
> always carry a spare tube when I'm on my Quickbeam. I also carry a
> patch kit so that I can swap and repair. I've actually had two flats
> on the same ride but that was my fault. I'm riding 35mm Paselas and It
> turned out a bit of gl
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 16:28 -0700, John Speare wrote:
>
> I agree that it probably wasn't designed for a 290'er, but it better
> be designed for a 220'er at least. I see lots of big big dudes around
> here on fly-weight carbon bikes with low-spoke-count wheels.
>
I wonder how many of them are us
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 09:01 -0700, William in Wyo wrote:
> Hi All, I got one of these nifty racks from VO
> http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/vo-randonneur-front-rack-stainless-steel.html
> and has anyone put one on a Rambouillet? Mines a 58 with Tektro R538
> brakes and 32C tires, no fender.
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