Forgot to add, as expected: The '94 was a nice bike but nothing at all compared to the later two customs which are far better in every way including handling.
Aside: Every time I think of converting the '99 gofast to a multispeed with bags, fenders, lights and so on -- was just pondering the possibility again the other day -- I ride it up a few hills as I did this afternoon and -- well, it goes up hills better than any bike I've owned; better than the other Riv. I may just get a S3X wheelset as a spare. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:23 PM, PATRICK MOORE <[email protected]> wrote: > I own two, and have owned four. > > '99 Joe 26" wheeled fixed gofast custom > 03 Curt 26" wheeled fixed runabout. This is actually almost identical to > the '99 except that it has braze ons for fenders and racks. It was built as > a derailleur bike -- with the world's only removable left dt shifter > brazeon, because I wanted to run it as a 1X10, but I had local builder Dave > Porter swap out the dropouts for Campy 1010s and now it is a fixie with no > irritatingly superfluous braze ons. (Hah!) > 2010? Sam HIllborne that was Riv's floor model for a while: single tt, > cantis. Not a bad bike at all, but not one that fits into my personal > preferred categories of use, so I sold it. > '95 (ordered late '94) Waterford built, custom 26" wheeled Riv Road. This > was an interesting one and I mildly wish I'd kept it: I called Grant and > asked him to build me a road bike for 26" wheels that handled better than > the XO-1. He said, "it will handle better" and sho' 'nuff it did. It was > sized and based roughly on the then current All Rounder model, but with > tweaked geometry and road tubing (tout 753) and road lugs and the nicest > biplane crown. I later hacked it up (very nicely) to make it into a > dedicated fixed gear commuter and then sold it. It would still make a very > nice beater for those occasions when I want to lock a bike up outside in a > more chancy neighborhood than is my usual wont. > > What I would like to add: > > Ram or Roadeo; probably Ram. > Atlantis for touring (Fargo to off road only) or Hunq for off road. > -- ------------------------- 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 [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.
