Riv recently added a new explainer to the "Bicycles & Frames" page on the website. It includes this line concerning the Roadini and Roadeo:
*Rivendell differences: More comfort, safer, more useful, more beautiful, and much more versatile. The bigger tires improve life on rough roads, and the clear fenders with tires up to 32mm, or without fenders, tires to 35mm. . Most other road bikes still being made max out at 28mm, with no fender at all.* But here's what the Roadeo page says concerning clearance *FOR SURE: The Jack Brown, which is NOMINALLY 33.333mm wide on most rims--but that's irrelevant, remember?--measures about 700mm on a 24mm rim. It's the fattest unfendered tire we can categorically commit to fitting the ROADEO fork. If you want fenders also, best limit the tire to 682mm height...which will be about a 28.* And likewise, from the Roadini brochure: *2. the same tire clearances (as the Roadeo)—up to a 35mm with no fender, and easily a 28mm with.* So what should I believe? Roadeo said 28 fendered/33 1/3rd unfendered, Roadini said 28 fendered/35 unfendered, and now it's come down that supposedly they'll work with 32s and fenders. And then of course we have at least one person on this list further muddying the waters by revealing that with careful caliper choice up front you can wedge 38s in a Roadini, but that's for sure unofficial. It does serve as an argument in favor of the original clearance estimated perhaps being a little conservative, though. So, I know I've asked this on here before but maybe it's worth revisiting - who out here is running tires over 28 with fenders on a Roadeo/Roadini? How's it going? I hear tell you have official support now. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/69854658-bf30-4973-9254-fc29d47df8c0%40googlegroups.com.
