I'm keeping the Road for now, thanks for the interest. Soft market, maybe, but no one wanted this at close enough to my asking price to justify the sale, so I'll keep riding it.
Best, Eric Indpls. On Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 10:43:17 AM UTC-4 EGNolan wrote: > Doug, > You may be right, that part does appear cast as part of the bb shell, so > likely "less work" to leave it and have both than remove it. Not sure, > though. > > Best, > Eric > > On Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 11:59:08 PM UTC-4 Doug Van Cleve wrote: > >> HiBOB. >> >> My ‘99 (or maybe it’s ‘98?) JS/JB Riv Road Std. is also like that. I’ve >> always thought of that as something Joe didn’t do. The BB shell has a mini >> chainstay bridge cast into/onto it, and there is a brazed in chainstays >> bridge as well. I personally think the cast one should have been filed >> away, but I don’t suppose it matters… >> >> Doug >> >> >> On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM EGNolan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If it's purpose is lovely superfluous brazing, it works wonderfully! I >>> enjoy it. >>> >>> For those wondering it's 57cm ctc for seat tube and top tube, 27.2 >>> seatpost, 130 spacing and is a "road standard" model. This catalog >>> <https://www.campyonly.com/images/mystuff/2006/rivendell_road/rivendell_catalog_3.pdf> >>> >>> is from pretty early on but gives info for those unaware of the model. >>> >>> On Friday, May 2, 2025 at 2:54:37 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: >>> >>>> Very nice. I see that it has Joe Starck’s trademark little brazing >>>> flourish “winglet" between BB shell and chainstay bridge. My 1999 has that >>>> too. It serves no purpose except to look like a lovely superfluous bit of >>>> brazing work. >>>> >>> -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/15d29196-ab34-45f8-884a-041bfbc5ffb5n%40googlegroups.com.
