My wife has a 1997 Rivendell Mountain Expedition, built up as a road bike. Grant suggested she go with the MTB frame as it scaled down better than the other geometries. I makes an awesome touring/road bike.
Here's a photo: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2014816&l=0fe19fdded&id=590592410 - Rob On Apr 8, 10:25 pm, RonaTD <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Waterford-build Riv mountain bike. It's made of 753 tubing > and has the A/R crown. The original plan was to have MB-0 type forks, > but it turned out to be way too hard to bend the fork blade to fit the > crown Grant had made. Too bad - I saw a prototype and it was truly > amazing to behold. > > I really like it, but don't get to ride it much. A few times a year I > take it to the southern Kettle Moraine trails here in SE Wisconsin. > I've also done a road century on it, on 1.5" slick tires. > > Suspension is a Brooks Conquest. Most of the time that's fine, but > recently I went for a couple-hour ride around the back of South > Mountain in Phoenix on a borrowed full-boinger and, one I discovered > how to undo the suspension lockout, it was pretty nice. I think if I > really did a lot of that kind of riding I'd end up getting suspension. > > Here's a bad picture of > it:http://homepage.mac.com/teddurant/Travelo/riv_mtb.jpg > > ted durant > milwaukee, wi, usa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
