1992: saw, understood, and bought a 1991 (? Cream colored, calipers) model on remainder at a LBS. Liked it a lot (hot rodded it with lightweight wheels, parts and end-of-drop-bar-hooks gripshifts!).
Signed up for the original boblist -- mailing only at that time, I think. Forget member #. Because of BOB mailing list, got mailer from Grant about new Rivendell venture. Followed it. Late 1994: asked Grant to make me a road bike that handled better than the XO-1. He said, "Oh, it will." Early 1995, received first 559 road custom, Waterford built of tout 753 (fork 531) built around current All Rounder geometry tweaked for road use: 73* parallel, shorter front-center, road lugs and tubing, new road fork. Rode it and liked it a lot, 'cept for the paint which flaked easily. 1998: had built and ridden two fixies and decided I wanted a really nice one. Talked to Grant about a similar custom but fixed. Grant said, "If you really know what you are doing, I'll go ahead." April 1999: received Joe Starck-built 559/571 gofast custom with no braze-ons except dt bottle cage braze ons; had it built up with nice parts including 571 Revolution wheels on ME14As, by Dick Hallet's gang. 2002: decided that I wanted a derailleur gofast equivalent. Talked to Grant, told him it should be identical except for derailleur hangar, horizontals and excessively customized *removable* left-side dt shifter boss. March, 2003: Curt came through and I built it up with lightweight parts including a 1X10 Am Classic 11-23 cassette with 8-sp Dura Ace der pulled by Retrofrictions. Rode it a lot until my tastes changed to commuting and fixed gears. Circa 2006: Dave Porter converted the Curt to 1010s with der hangar sliced off, removed the dt shifter boss/threaded braze-on, and moved the brake bridge to accomodate the movement of a fixed wheel. Built it up with rack, fenders, dynamo, lights and used it to commute 15 miles one way to work. 2012: still ride mostly the '99 and the '03/'06. 2010 (?): bought Riv's floor model 56 cm Sam, rode for six months, didn't like loaded handling, sold and bought used Fargo which is bee's knees. 2012: Covet Hunq, Roadeo, old Rambouillet, but no cash. On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:06 AM, lungimsam <john11.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > So how did you originally find out about them, and why/where/how did you get > your first Rivendell bike? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/og7N-tA2hBgJ. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- "When in Rome, do as they done in Milledgeville." Flannery O'Connor ------------------------- Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW http://resumespecialties.com/index.html ------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
