Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-27 Thread newenglandbike
There is also a Riv blog post about the Hilsen tubeset here:

http://rivbike.tumblr.com/post/3218082349/the-t-question-long-post-dry-reading

The Homer is made with these tubes, if made in Wisconsin:

Seat tube: True Temper Verus heat-treated CrMo. HT CrMo generally ends up 
with a tensile strength of at least 140,000 psi, so I’m guessing it does 
too, but if you must know, look it up online. The bike would be no worse if 
the seat tube metal had an ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of 100,000 psi. 
That’s more than strong enough, but if a truly crummier frame somewhere had 
the 140,000 psi metal, we’d look bad, and would look defensive defending 
the 100,000 psi tube, which is nuts. 
True Temper makes an even stronger tube, OX Platinum, which does’t work 
well for seat tubes, because heating hardens it to the point where it’s too 
hard to ream, so the seat post might not fit well.

DOWNtube and TOP TUBE: Here we do use OX Plat, with a UTS of about 200,000 
psi. At this point it’s sort of like putting a razor’s edge or super steel 
on a butter knife and calling it better for it. But in the only slightly 
weird world of marketing fancy bikes, when bad builders can buy the same 
tubing and brag about it, it makes nonsense to use something more 
realistically appropriate. 

The head tube is OX plat, too. With our lugs, with their reinforced head 
tube rings that totally forever absolutely will never ovalize, there’s no 
advantage to it, but we got it, anyway. 




On Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:43:41 PM UTC-4, Fullylugged wrote:

 At times RBW gives tube specs but usially not.  Ram specs are published. 
 You can search this list archives because i posted themwithin the last 
 year.  Or emsil me and ill send yhem from a device i can actually type 
 on.

 Sent from my Kindle Fire


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 *From:* Ryan Ray ryanr...@gmail.com
 *Sent:* Thu Apr 26 16:18:48 CDT 2012
 *To:* rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com
 *Subject:* [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised
  
 How do you know the tubes? Was there a time when Riv told you what tubes 
 they used? 

 Iv'e been trying to find out the tubes in Rambs.

 Thanks,
 Ryan





 On Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:55:43 PM UTC-7, SISDDWG wrote:

 Frame, fork, and headset only 

 Frame: 
  Long-low road 
  Standard 
  Size: 59cm measured ctt, tt has 1 degree upslope 

 Braze-ons: 
  Shifter bosses 
  Cantilever bosses 
  Rear rack mounts 

 Installed Parts: 
  Tange Rollerball headset 26.4 x 30.2 

 Paint: 
  JB Green 
  Painted head tube 
  Window fill 

 Specs: 
  Top Tube: Reynolds 725 28.6 x 858 (AG206) 
  Head Tube: Reynolds 531 31.7 x 0.9 
  Fork Blades: Reynolds 531 Rnd 24OD x 0.55 x 385 
  Down Tube: Tange Prestige 28.6 9-6-9 
  Seat Stay: Vitus 16OD x 0.8 x 560 
  Seat Tube: Vitus 28.6 976 (GTI) 
  Chain Stay: Reynolds 725 22.2 ROR 8-6 (FX2500) 

 NEVER crashed. No dents. Usual unobtrusive paint chips. 

 Shipping within continental U.S.A. only. Buyer pays actual USPS cost. 

 Price: $850 plus shipping cost via Paypal or cash if local pick up. 


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Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-27 Thread newenglandbike
Continued.

The chainstays are OX PLAT, with the odd wall thickness of 0.76mm. Normal 
would be 0.7 to 0.9, with 0.8 being really common, but these are 0.76. Odd, 
but fine. They’re good chainstays.

The seat stays are Reynolds double-tapered HT CrMo (725). TruTemp doesn’t 
make double-tapered seat stays, and the Hilsen doesn’t NEED them, but I 
like them and the Hilsen is our pride and joy, so we get them from Reynolds.

The fork blades are Reynolds, too. We like this blade better than any 
other. It’s not heat-treated. I don’t like heat-treated fork blades, 
because I think in a front-end crash, the forks should bend before the 
downtube does. Sometimes both go—-you never can tell—but when you’ve got an 
OX Plat down tube, a non-heat treated fork makes sense.

All of our lugs and bb shells and fork crowns and most of our dropouts are 
our own, meaning made just for us and of our design. They are as good as 
lugs can be, I think, but they can’t make a badly designed or poorly brazed 
frame good. Since our frames are well-designed (my opinion) and brazed, it 
makes sense to use really find fittings, and that’s why we do it.

On Friday, April 27, 2012 4:29:55 AM UTC-4, newenglandbike wrote:

 There is also a Riv blog post about the Hilsen tubeset here:


 http://rivbike.tumblr.com/post/3218082349/the-t-question-long-post-dry-reading

 The Homer is made with these tubes, if made in Wisconsin:

 Seat tube: True Temper Verus heat-treated CrMo. HT CrMo generally ends up 
 with a tensile strength of at least 140,000 psi, so I’m guessing it does 
 too, but if you must know, look it up online. The bike would be no worse if 
 the seat tube metal had an ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of 100,000 psi. 
 That’s more than strong enough, but if a truly crummier frame somewhere had 
 the 140,000 psi metal, we’d look bad, and would look defensive defending 
 the 100,000 psi tube, which is nuts. 
 True Temper makes an even stronger tube, OX Platinum, which does’t work 
 well for seat tubes, because heating hardens it to the point where it’s too 
 hard to ream, so the seat post might not fit well.

 DOWNtube and TOP TUBE: Here we do use OX Plat, with a UTS of about 200,000 
 psi. At this point it’s sort of like putting a razor’s edge or super steel 
 on a butter knife and calling it better for it. But in the only slightly 
 weird world of marketing fancy bikes, when bad builders can buy the same 
 tubing and brag about it, it makes nonsense to use something more 
 realistically appropriate. 

 The head tube is OX plat, too. With our lugs, with their reinforced head 
 tube rings that totally forever absolutely will never ovalize, there’s no 
 advantage to it, but we got it, anyway. 




 On Thursday, April 26, 2012 7:43:41 PM UTC-4, Fullylugged wrote:

 At times RBW gives tube specs but usially not.  Ram specs are published. 
 You can search this list archives because i posted themwithin the last 
 year.  Or emsil me and ill send yhem from a device i can actually type 
 on.

 Sent from my Kindle Fire


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 *From:* Ryan Ray ryanr...@gmail.com
 *Sent:* Thu Apr 26 16:18:48 CDT 2012
 *To:* rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com
 *Subject:* [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised
  
 How do you know the tubes? Was there a time when Riv told you what tubes 
 they used? 

 Iv'e been trying to find out the tubes in Rambs.

 Thanks,
 Ryan





 On Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:55:43 PM UTC-7, SISDDWG wrote:

 Frame, fork, and headset only 

 Frame: 
  Long-low road 
  Standard 
  Size: 59cm measured ctt, tt has 1 degree upslope 

 Braze-ons: 
  Shifter bosses 
  Cantilever bosses 
  Rear rack mounts 

 Installed Parts: 
  Tange Rollerball headset 26.4 x 30.2 

 Paint: 
  JB Green 
  Painted head tube 
  Window fill 

 Specs: 
  Top Tube: Reynolds 725 28.6 x 858 (AG206) 
  Head Tube: Reynolds 531 31.7 x 0.9 
  Fork Blades: Reynolds 531 Rnd 24OD x 0.55 x 385 
  Down Tube: Tange Prestige 28.6 9-6-9 
  Seat Stay: Vitus 16OD x 0.8 x 560 
  Seat Tube: Vitus 28.6 976 (GTI) 
  Chain Stay: Reynolds 725 22.2 ROR 8-6 (FX2500) 

 NEVER crashed. No dents. Usual unobtrusive paint chips. 

 Shipping within continental U.S.A. only. Buyer pays actual USPS cost. 

 Price: $850 plus shipping cost via Paypal or cash if local pick up. 


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Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-27 Thread Leslie
FWIW:

While chatting w/ Riv folks awaiting my Bomba's arrival, they told me a lot 
about how its built.   The diagonal mid-tube is the same as the top tube; 
and the seat tube is also the same tubing, which gets sized (why it has a 
26.8 instead of a 27.2 seatpost); those and the downtube are all OX PLAT.  
Waterford builds the frames, the lugs/tubes assembly, but then Mark N. adds 
on the curva-stays that run from the diagonal at the middle of the seat 
tube to the stays (to a seat stay on one side, the other side to a 
chainstay).  Took awhile for the frame to get built, as they had a new lug 
coming for doing the diagonal;  but the extra time meant the new wider 
fork-crown arrived, too;  which is why the NeoMoto 2.3's fit with lots of 
leftover clearance.  



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Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-27 Thread Bruce Herbitter
I meant to send this to the list.   Saluki is not identical, iirc, but is
similar. Maybe someone from RBW can chime in on that.

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Bruce Herbitter
bruce.herbit...@gmail.comwrote:

 Down tube: Tohouku-Miyata Heat Treated double butted 31.8  .8/.5/.8
 through 66CM  68 has .9/.6/.9
 Top Tube:  Tohouku-Miyata 28.6  .8/.5/.8 double butted
 Seat Tube: Tohouku-Miyata 28.6  1.0/.6 butted
 Head Tube: Tohouku-Miyata  31.8  .9
 Seat Stays: Tohouku-Miyata 16 x .7 double tapered
 Chain Stays Tohouku-Miyata Heat Treated  .8
 Fork Blades Tohouku-Miyata  1.0

 From the Rivendell web site 4/26/2007.


 On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Ryan Ray ryanr...@gmail.com wrote:

 I just tried to find them but couldn't.

 If you have any info that would be great.

 If it matters it's a green 64cm.

 - Ryan





 On Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:43:41 PM UTC-7, Fullylugged wrote:

 At times RBW gives tube specs but usially not.  Ram specs are published.
 You can search this list archives because i posted themwithin the last
 year.  Or emsil me and ill send yhem from a device i can actually type
 on.

 Sent from my Kindle Fire


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 *From:* Ryan Ray ryanr...@gmail.com
 *Sent:* Thu Apr 26 16:18:48 CDT 2012
 *To:* rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.**comrbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com
 *Subject:* [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

 How do you know the tubes? Was there a time when Riv told you what tubes
 they used?

 Iv'e been trying to find out the tubes in Rambs.

 Thanks,
 Ryan





 On Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:55:43 PM UTC-7, SISDDWG wrote:

 Frame, fork, and headset only

 Frame:
  Long-low road
  Standard
  Size: 59cm measured ctt, tt has 1 degree upslope

 Braze-ons:
  Shifter bosses
  Cantilever bosses
  Rear rack mounts

 Installed Parts:
  Tange Rollerball headset 26.4 x 30.2

 Paint:
  JB Green
  Painted head tube
  Window fill

 Specs:
  Top Tube: Reynolds 725 28.6 x 858 (AG206)
  Head Tube: Reynolds 531 31.7 x 0.9
  Fork Blades: Reynolds 531 Rnd 24OD x 0.55 x 385
  Down Tube: Tange Prestige 28.6 9-6-9
  Seat Stay: Vitus 16OD x 0.8 x 560
  Seat Tube: Vitus 28.6 976 (GTI)
  Chain Stay: Reynolds 725 22.2 ROR 8-6 (FX2500)

 NEVER crashed. No dents. Usual unobtrusive paint chips.

 Shipping within continental U.S.A. only. Buyer pays actual USPS cost.

 Price: $850 plus shipping cost via Paypal or cash if local pick up.


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Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-27 Thread Marty
Not all Bombas take a 26.8. Mine (an early Diagaversion) uses 27.2, which 
thankfully allowed the use of the Nitto lugged set-back post. Could very 
well be that all current and future Bombas will be like yours Leslie. I 
even seem to recall that the 26.8 post was the original plan. (I even had a 
NOS XC-Pro in that size waiting...which I sold when I received the frame.)  
Maybe mine was a one-off. 

Marty

On Friday, April 27, 2012 7:14:27 AM UTC-5, Leslie wrote:

 FWIW:

 ...it has a 26.8 instead of a 27.2 seatpost





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Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-27 Thread cyclotour...@gmail.com

Forget the tubing, somebody needs to buy this custom frame! What a great 
bike!!!






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Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-27 Thread Leslie
Not a one-off, it was, and will be again.  For the moment, on the current 
Bomba (and the Hunq too, I think), the reason some are using the 26.8 is 
because they're using the stouter top-tube for the seat tube, until they 
get another tube for use for the seat tube that will allow the 27.2 
seatposts again.

Eventually, they'll be 27.2.   But a new one right now, should be a 26.8.   

On Friday, April 27, 2012 11:25:35 AM UTC-4, Marty wrote:

 Not all Bombas take a 26.8. Mine (an early Diagaversion) uses 27.2, which 
 thankfully allowed the use of the Nitto lugged set-back post. Could very 
 well be that all current and future Bombas will be like yours Leslie. I 
 even seem to recall that the 26.8 post was the original plan. (I even had a 
 NOS XC-Pro in that size waiting...which I sold when I received the frame.)  
 Maybe mine was a one-off. 

 Marty

 On Friday, April 27, 2012 7:14:27 AM UTC-5, Leslie wrote:

 FWIW:

 ...it has a 26.8 instead of a 27.2 seatpost





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Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-27 Thread Jim
I bet the reason is the steel was actually rolled to inch dimensions, which 
would be 0.030, a common thickness that is basically the same as 0.76mm

Jim in Boulder

On Friday, April 27, 2012 2:33:47 AM UTC-6, newenglandbike wrote:

 ..

 The chainstays are OX PLAT, with the odd wall thickness of 0.76mm. Normal 
 would be 0.7 to 0.9, with 0.8 being really common, but these are 0.76. Odd, 
 but fine. They’re good chainstays.



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Re: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised

2012-04-26 Thread Bruce Herbitter
At times RBW gives tube specs but usially not.  Ram specs are published. You 
can search this list archives because i posted themwithin the last year.  Or 
emsil me and ill send yhem from a device i can actually type on.

Sent from my Kindle Fire



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From: Ryan Ray ryanr...@gmail.com
Sent: Thu Apr 26 16:18:48 CDT 2012
To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com
Subject: [RBW] Re: FS: 59cm Joe/Joe Longlow revised


How do you know the tubes? Was there a time when Riv told you what tubes they 
used? 


Iv'e been trying to find out the tubes in Rambs.


Thanks,

Ryan






On Thursday, April 26, 2012 1:55:43 PM UTC-7, SISDDWG wrote:

Frame, fork, and headset only 

Frame: 
 Long-low road 
 Standard 
 Size: 59cm measured ctt, tt has 1 degree upslope 

Braze-ons: 
 Shifter bosses 
 Cantilever bosses 
 Rear rack mounts 

Installed Parts: 
 Tange Rollerball headset 26.4 x 30.2 

Paint: 
 JB Green 
 Painted head tube 
 Window fill 

Specs: 
 Top Tube: Reynolds 725 28.6 x 858 (AG206) 
 Head Tube: Reynolds 531 31.7 x 0.9 
 Fork Blades: Reynolds 531 Rnd 24OD x 0.55 x 385 
 Down Tube: Tange Prestige 28.6 9-6-9 
 Seat Stay: Vitus 16OD x 0.8 x 560 
 Seat Tube: Vitus 28.6 976 (GTI) 
 Chain Stay: Reynolds 725 22.2 ROR 8-6 (FX2500) 

NEVER crashed. No dents. Usual unobtrusive paint chips. 

Shipping within continental U.S.A. only. Buyer pays actual USPS cost. 

Price: $850 plus shipping cost via Paypal or cash if local pick up. 


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