I own a Rivendell Mountain. Have owned it since about 1996 when I finally got it from Rivendell. Originally, the Rivendell Mountain was supposed to have its own set of proprietary lug set and fork crown. I am assuming the low number of requests for it didn't justify the cost of making separate lugs for this specific frameset. In Grants earlier writing he mentioned some special fork crown that Marc Muller and/or Richard Schwinn had designed that he was going to use on the Riv Mountain.
I don't know if I ordered my frameset before I knew this, or after. I do know that I ordered it after the price increase. Finally got it after several payments on Christmas Eve. I remember having some exchanges with Grant regarding substituting some KGB (Breezer) dropouts for their standard ones and possibly going with a Rollercam brake on it instead of cantis. He was against the Breezer drop outs, but would allow for the Rollercam brake. I stayed with cantis front and rear. Mine is 20" in silver one color. I have it built up with Suntour XC-Pro and Wilderness Trail Bikes parts. I have it built up as a full suspension with a Softride stem and a Thudbuster Uni-Pivot seatpost. Using a Scott AT-3 multi position handlebar with original WTB modified Magura grips and ODI Attack bar wrap. Best bar wrap ever. I have changed things out now and then, just to end up going back to the original set up. Changed out the Suntour XC-Pro thumbies for XC-Pro Wishbone shifters and swapped them back. Changed out the WTB SST saddle for a Brooks B-17 for a short while just to change it back. Currently have it Ritchey Cross Bite 1.4 tires on it. Looking to put some fat Schwalbe tire on it of some kind. I keep thinking of further Rivendeling it with the Phil Wood Hubs, skewers and bb along with their Riv/IRD Silver shifters, but like the current build too much and don't know where to move the other parts to. Other than the tires, I plan on swapping out the Profile cage on the downtube for a Tallac stainless steel duel bottle cage. Also, this is my first post on this list since it left bikelist.org. Glad to contribute again to this list. Thanks, Reginald Alexis Fremont, Nebraska On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 10:52:50 AM UTC-6, Jim M. wrote: > > On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 8:32:46 AM UTC-8, Montclair BobbyB wrote: >> >> Riv Mountain ?? Wow, what was that ?? > > > Here's a Riv Mountain on Flickr: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/15750548@N04/4019037057/ > > I've never seen one in person but have seen maybe 2 up for sale ever. I > don't know how many total there were. > > Another for the list is the Clem Smith, prototypes of which exist at RBW. > > jim m > wc ca > -- 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-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
