Dumb question: I know you checked with Waterford, but did you check with Rivendell themselves to see who the serial number matches up too? Or maybe Rivendell themselves sold it initially to a dealer? I just can't imagine Rivendell does not have a record of the FIRST buyer of the bike at least.
Oh, and your kindness warmed my heart. I told my wife about this, she's not a bike person at all, and she thinks you are a very excellent person. Major karma points to you. Ty On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 8:42:43 AM UTC-7, Philip Meyer wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm not a Riv owner, but I have a Riv owner's bike right now and want to > reunite it with him or her. > > It is an early 2000s, custom road bike, 61.5 seat tube length, light blue > with "Rivendell" on the downtube and a Riv head badge. 9 speed with a > mixture of Dura Ace 7700 and Ultegra with an XTR MD-950 rear derailleur. > Thud buster seatpost and avocet saddle. I contacted RBW about the bike - > they said that the serial number indicates it was built by Waterford, but > they didn't have records of who the owner was. There are rack braze ons on > the seatstay but no rack and no fork braze ons. > > I came across this bike on the side of the road in central LA. The person > who had it was selling it for a price so low that I can't imagine it's > anything but stolen. After hemming and hawing, I decided to buy it in hopes > of returning it to its owner. > > Photo attached - please message me if you have any idea who the owner > might be. Thanks! > > Philip Meyer > > > -- 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.
