Welcome, Owen! It’s exciting and full of over-thinking to puzzle out a bike build, ain’t it? Grin. One of the gifts of this group is the expertice in various details, but in the end, we each have to figure out what works for us when the rubber meets the road, the hands the bars, the feet the pedals, the rear the saddle. Grin.
You’d said: “Also at 5'11" any idea on which stem riser height I should be looking at?” Rivendell uses threaded 1” (? Confirm that, I may have the detail wrong? 1.25”?) headsets, so if your question presumes the threadless headsets you see on most bike, these are different. The height is very adjustable on Riv stems in a wide range. The stem decisions you’ll have are: 1) road brake levers (26mm stem) or mountain brake levers (25.?mm diameter stem)? (your bar will determine this); stem length (if you go 52 Clem, longer stem length most likely, shorter for the large). I understand the budget constraint, but if you can, wherever your body meets the bike, quality matters. Rivendell is great at offering good value parts for these, including pedals, but it’s worth spending more on bar and saddle once you have an idea what works for you. Enjoy the delecious torment of thinking about a bike you don’t yet have! We’ve all been there, and some of us are always there! Grin. With abandon, Patrick -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
