Hello RBW owners, After several years of visits to RBW headquarters, drooling over the Readers, and a couple of Riv-ish bike builds, I'm proud to say that I'll be a Quickbeam owner by the end of the week!
I've managed to score an orange QB frameset and I'm having the folks at Rivendell build it up for me. I was planning to go with a stock build (I really like and want to honor the original concept), plus a front rack, basket, and fenders. I do have a couple of questions to put to the group, though, before I go through with my plans: 1) Have any of you ridden with a fixed cog on flip side of the stock hub? Is it safe without a lockring and with the quick release? Have you experienced any slippage? I wouldn't be doing any skid or skip stops with two brakes, but I would probably be doing some back-pedal braking when riding fixed. 2) Seeing as this a build-up project, I have the opportunity to tweak the stock build as much as I like (or can afford). Is there anything you modified later that you wish had come on the stock bike? Any tips appreciated. Thanks in advance for any responses. It's great to be able to join this group! i.e. -- 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.
