| If the colour choices are compelling, it may well be my first ever brand new bike.
Although I’m also kinda hoping someone else gets one in my size and has buyers remorse a few months later!
Which strangely seems to happen around here quite frequently.
It sounds like a pretty great and practical bike for a decent swath of Los Angeles riding.
And I have a ton of stuff already in the bins to throw at it…
On Jan 8, 2024, at 6:51 PM, velomann <velom...@gmail.com> wrote:
When the initial info about the Roaduno was coming out, I was pretty stoked about it. I was anticipating a true, clean, Rivendell lugged single speed with 120 rear spacing and the ability to take wide-ish 700c tires courtesy of cantilever mounts.
The addition of the derailleur hanger was the first sign this was being designed for a different audience, and would be (in regard to my personal interest) an odd duck. losing the canti mounts bums me out - the phrase ""long-reach sidepull" is a real buzzkill for me - and now there's the whole thing with the single left-side downtube boss. And I love DT shifters, but I don't want one on my singlespeed.
I guess the bike I really was wanting is closer to the Crust single speed Lightning Bolt. But since learning the latest details, I'm maybe moderating my position some. The Roaduno is most decidedly not what I was originally hoping for. But it might still be a really fun bike for me. The idea of a single rear and triple front is goofy, but maybe a cool way to set this up and push back against my inner purist ;-) Currently on the Roaduno fence, I guess.
Mike M
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 3:55:29 PM UTC-8 CMR wrote:
Anyone test ride and can tell whether they will be a long top tube model (e.g., Atlantis, Clem), or a shorter top tube model (Hillborne, Homer)? The front-center looks super long in the photos which makes me think a long top-tube, upright bars only build - which I'd prefer!
On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 12:40:15 PM UTC-8 Bill Lindsay wrote:
For those of you planning, plotting, conspiring to do a build of your own, one thing that is not crystal clear is that you'll need is a pair of long reach caliper brakes. I've got two sets that I would like to sell. One is the very modest Tektro 365. It's got the identical forgings and geometry of the "nicer" models but has a modest finish, solid brake blocks and a primitive adjusting barrel. The ones I'm selling have some corrosion visible as well, so they are budget, ugly-duckling brakes. The other is the nicer 556, which has a nicer barrel adjuster and came with nice metal pad holders. These were on friend-Doug's A. Homer Hilsen and at some point he replaced one set of brake pads, so the holders are black on one brake, grey on the other, and the brake inserts themselves are red on one brake and black on the other. I'm asking $35 shipped for the 365s and $55 shipped for the 556s.
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365 Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA Speaking of Roaduno, I read in one of the earlier updates that the new bike is very similar to a Homer geometrically. I also saw some reference to it being offered as a complete. I cannot wait to learn of all the details.
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