On Jan 8, 10:22 am, Larry Schellhase <[email protected]> wrote: ... > I am truly grateful to Grant and Rivendell for including tall frames in > their off the shelf inventory. It is truly rare to be able to buy a frame of > this size without getting it custom made. I believe the tall frames happened > at Rivendell because Bhima, the frame manager in the early part of this > century was very tall and Grant thought they should build frames that his > frame manager could ride.
Yeah, and the large sizes are slowly contracting back to conventional standards as time progresses - but they're still the best selection in the business (VO told me they had no plans to make a larger frame "at least this year" ). When I mentioned Bhima's name to Jay several months ago, he said "sorry, I don't know who that is." I had to turn it into a joke with "well, everything I know about Rivendell is ten years old." Bhima may have been the early booster of really large tires, too. I remember talking with him, and I can't document it, but I seem to remember Grant writing about how "Bhima just swears by those Big Apples on his Atlantis." Did Bhima also get the first double top tube bike? Probably not, I'd bet a custom was first, but his was the first paratube Riv I remember seeing a photo of, anyway. One of the most unfortunate aspects of so much of Rivendell's ad copy, product descriptions and musings being on their website instead of in print is how ephemeral it all is. Every now and then I go to the site to try to re-remember something that I have a foggy memory of, and see it's modified or gone. The S24O info, for instance, is much more expansive in readers than what is now on the site. Much of the advice was tied in with products - and once the products are no longer for sale everything disappears. The cyclofiend site is the single best online source for obsolete Riv copy that I know, and I hope that it continues. Heck, I looked up the old Bike Pro online catalog recently, and it's still a great resource even though it's probably been out of business for over 10 years. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
