If you wanted the signature Rivendell road ride, but couldn't afford another custom or the Roadeo (and didn't want the Ram -- tried one), and if you thought you might look for an old road racing frame from the '70s, what would you look for? 120 mm OL spacing.
After trying out, once again, the S3X hub on the gofast, the hub gear wheel idea being a quick-swap way to adapt this bike to occasional longer and hilly rides, I find that the lash is a deal killer. So I want a frame to build a bike around my AM hub. I'd probably give any such frame to Chauncey to have him remove unneeded braze-ons (like icky derailleur bosses and hangar), and have him braze on needed ones, like a roller boss at the seat tube junction and a housing stop mid-top tube for the trigger cable housing, and then have it powder coated. I did have a decent 1973 Motobecane 2nd level Record, and that was close to what I want, but it wasn't cigar level; it didn't handle quite like my Rivs. (I am tempted to give Chauncey my gofast, and tell him: "Replicate this." But that would be at least $1200 -- cheap at the price, but more than I ought to consider at this point.) (Wouldn't it be lovely to have a customized Roadeo, 57 for me, without the derailleur bits?) Ideas? Thanks. Patrick Moore, who just again rode the gofast with 95"/71"/59" S3X in windy ABQ, NM Aside: As I turned north onto Corrales Road on the way to Stevie's, with wind blowing from the south, I shifted into the 95" and bowled along merrily -- until the road turned and the wind quartered and my cadence dropped like a stone. How much better the ASC would be: you could have that downhill and tailwind gear at say 80", and at 90% have a 72" cruising and at 75% a 59" climbing -- though they say that the ASC also had lashings of lash. The AM, with direct + 11.55% and - 12.5% would give one, say, a 70" direct, a 78" high, and a 61" low -- very usable gears, not to mention coasting. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
