Erik,
I've got the rack to fit the big loafer but not the bag. It's time to
stop the madness.
Can I buy your bag from you?
Thanks -
Ami
On Feb 9, 10:19 pm, erik jensen bicyclen...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a big loafer that I'd love to trade for a little loafer or a
handlebar bag. let me know
On Feb 9, 1:37 pm, EricP ericpl...@aol.com wrote:
Have the Grab Sack aka Murse (man's purse). Don't ride with it, but
do use it on a daily basis for carrying stuff to work. Fits a coffee
mug, Kindle, camera and iPod just fine.
I prefer the term Shoulder Sporran.
Philip
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Hi All,
There's a new blog post on the Rivendell site, about the tubing used
on the AHH frames. It is advertised as dry reading- but personally
I found it very interesting, maybe b/c like many here, I am a total
bike nut. I think it's great that Grant decided to post it, even
though he is
Best wishes on a fantastically warm getaway. Normally, I'd suggest
considering Texas for a nice southern break from a harsh winter, but
it was 12F at my house this morning.
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About newenglandbike's wood analogy, I think a more accurate analogy
might be that knowing the TYPE of wood is important, but knowing the
BRAND is probably not. You certainly want to know your house is being
built of a certain grade and species, but whether that wood comes from
Weyerhauser or
The wood analogy is not mine; it's from the original blog post.
On Feb 10, 9:51 am, JoelMatthews joelmatth...@mac.com wrote:
Actually, if you are going to make a quality home, steel and cement
framing are the better way to go.
The AHH is not a custom bike. If the buyer wants to spec
Actually, if you are going to make a quality home, steel and cement
framing are the better way to go.
The AHH is not a custom bike. If the buyer wants to spec tubing, find
a builder who will use the tubing of your choice. Many builders,
including those considered among the best, will accept
The wood analogy is not mine; it's from the original blog post. But
I think the intended purpose of the analogy is very clear, even if the
analysis of it may or may not be (to me anyway).
On Feb 10, 9:51 am, JoelMatthews joelmatth...@mac.com wrote:
Actually, if you are going to make a quality
Richard Sachs hasn't used tubing decals for more than 20 years. I don't know
what kind of tubing he used for my frame--it just works, and marvelously so.
—Eric N
www.campyonly.com
On Feb 10, 2011, at 6:11 AM, newenglandbike matthiasbe...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
There's a new blog post on
The hub has been sold. Thanks for the interest.
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:12 PM, PATRICK MOORE bertin...@gmail.com wrote:
White Industries VBC cranks, 170, arms and outer chainring lockring
only, previous owner claimed 700 miles, not mounted by me, VG -- two
or three very tiny, hardly visible,
I agree Pete. I am also an amateur astronomer and mirror and lens makers
stopped telling the buyer the actual wavelength coreection of their products
because even though you could see no difference, people were reselling mirrors
with better numbers for more money. And, that pissed the mirror
Well Well.. I'm glad I'm not Grant. Write a quick article on how you feel
and have your anologies disected more so than the overal point being made.
I just took it to mean, regardless of the name of the quality tube it's more
the design and build than the tube itself you should be worried
Rob,
Thanks for the complement, my Riv is beaming as it rests on the bike
rack!
Jim
On Feb 9, 9:26 pm, rob markwardt robmar...@hotmail.com wrote:
This bike gets my vote as the all-time best looking Rivendell ever. I
think I could straddle that beauty too so if it ever needs a new
home
Now we're talking.. sweet bike. :)
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Greg,
The original model of the Rivendell Road Standard has some rather
close clearances that limits choices of fenders and tires
combinations. The catalogs that Rivendell published at the time
indicated that the bike would accommodate 700x32C tires with fenders
and up to 700x35C without. If
I think it is a Grants.
See photos of a Grants that I took in Minneapolis about 5 years ago.
https://picasaweb.google.com/jblish/TransferFromSmugmugPbase#5572097070319131474
https://picasaweb.google.com/jblish/TransferFromSmugmugPbase#5572097066635658578
Esteban,
Yes there is a threaded fender mount on the brake bridge. I chose to
use the sliding bridge bracket to permit the possibility of exchanging
the fenders on another bike without the fender mount.
Jim
On Feb 10, 9:23 am, Esteban proto...@gmail.com wrote:
Jim - do you have a fender mount
I don't have a pattern. I might have one when I'm done but I'll be
working in leather and the pattern will be a bit different then
working with fabric, fabric requiring a seem allowance.
Some of my previous work -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neutralbuoyancy/5186305627/in/set-72157607896493013/
Jim is right.
Prepare for cold, wind, and rain, but pray for warm sun and a tailwind
on route 1.
If we're lucky, it'll just be cold and winds under 10mph.
I'll be working the start control that morning.
-Ely
On Feb 9, 10:45 am, Travelo teddur...@gmail.com wrote:
So, I have to be in the Bay Area
yes, they work nicely!
On Feb 9, 8:05 pm, james meine...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone ever tried to use the pedal spikes sold by riv on the
sneaker pedals, the bmx pedals that riv also sells? They only
really show them being used in the grip kings, but I wonder if they
would work on the bmx
I do think it's a fine thing to think deeply about bicycles, how they are
put together and the seemingly miraculous things that a set of sub-6-ish
pound set of tubes can do.
That being said, it's also too easy to equate brand with quality. In
conversations with bicycle builders over the years,
A Rivendell could be made of bubble gum for all I care. It looks and
rides just like I expect from a Rivendell and that is all that
matters.
With custom stuff..it's appropriate just to say to a reputable builder
that I want the bike to feel like XYZ and have some specific features
- have them
Well Well.. I'm glad I'm not Grant. Write a quick article on how you feel
and have your anologies disected more so than the overal point being made.
I was just harrassing GP on Cement and Steel over wood. In hindsight,
perhaps I should have left it unsaid. If I recall from my
undergraduate
Do we know the wall thicknesses from previous mention or is implicit
to the tubing model? (ie. True Temper Verus HT cromo seat tubes only
come in one wall thickness.) Wall thickness is the thing I've always
wondered but never asked, because it always seemed pretty obvious --
to me, apparently
I hope my post didn't come off with some kind of irreverent tone- it
*definitely* wasn't meant that way. I just thought it was an
interesting/thought-provoking blog entry, that's all.I enjoyed
reading it and thought we could discuss it here.
Matt
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About the only thing I'll say by way of defense of the question is
maybe 2% of the buying public can discern these differences. I
empathize with a builder (whether bike or house) that gets asked these
question because there's no way of knowing up front whether the person
asking is in the 2%
On Feb 10, 7:10 am, newenglandbike matthiasbe...@gmail.com wrote:
The wood analogy is not mine; it's from the original blog post. But
I think the intended purpose of the analogy is very clear, even if the
analysis of it may or may not be (to me anyway).
I don't know, I recently had my back
I don't know, I recently had my back yard cleared and we found dry rot
on the post holding up the deck (its 20ft in the air), so I'm going
to have to replace it.
But you can make the analogy even more complicated.
There are probably some asthetic rationale behind your specifying wood
based
Those are some cool panniers. If you ever consider making a set in a
sort of Etsy way, let me know off-list. I've no idea how much you
might charge for something like that, so maybe it's really something I
could never afford. But I'd sure be interested in finding out.
Yours,
Thomas Lynn Skean
On
On Feb 10, 12:33 pm, JoelMatthews joelmatth...@mac.com wrote:
I would wager that even some pre-eminent bike builders can not say
with absolute certainty that if bike A has a downtube with wall
thickness x it will deliver ride y to a rider of weight z. There are
some general assumptions that
There's an interview, and an open discussion with Grant fielding
questions.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2772-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-rivendell
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Lots of responses! From my point of view, one of the values of the
blogstuff is that it doesn't have to be thoroughly thought-out. I can
get a bug and turn it into a monster, or just vent, or whatever. So,
even though I know what I mean and intend to say basically, it doesn't
always come off
Personally, I'd love to know things like tubing thickness, brand,
brazing material, reasons behind choosing them, expected outcomes of
choosing them, etc. It's just plain fascinating to hear.
However... in my case it's simply curiosity. And probably even that
curiosity wouldn't extend beyond some
Definitely worth reading. Thanks for the link.
On Feb 10, 10:51 am, Rick richardholc...@yahoo.com wrote:
There's an interview, and an open discussion with Grant fielding
questions.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2772-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-riv...
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On Feb 10, 9:33 am, JoelMatthews joelmatth...@mac.com wrote:
About the only thing I'll say by way of defense of the question is
maybe 2% of the buying public can discern these differences. I
empathize with a builder (whether bike or house) that gets asked these
question because there's
On Feb 10, 10:03 am, JoelMatthews joelmatth...@mac.com wrote:
I don't know, I recently had my back yard cleared and we found dry rot
on the post holding up the deck (its 20ft in the air), so I'm going
to have to replace it.
But you can make the analogy even more complicated.
But that's
Jim:
Grant has noted in other posts (on the Hunqapillar, iirc) that Kasei makes the
very best tubing avail and some of that is used in the 'Pillar, even though it
is a Taiwanese built frame. His Hilsen posts starts out if made in Wisconsin
but that is their only locale these days. A few years
The combined age of these three frames with different tubing is 85
years -- the three of them give me tremendous enjoyment!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46647848@N02/
On Feb 10, 5:11 am, newenglandbike matthiasbe...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
There's a new blog post on the Rivendell site, about
Interesting to see Grant respond. When I (just) read the article, my
interpretation was that there are different types of Reynolds, or
Columbus or (insert favorite here) tubing. Seamed, not seamed,
straight gauge, butted, double butted, triple butted. Etc. And not
everyone knows the difference
I liked this part:
What custom means
When Grant Petersen was 19, he ordered a custom bamboo fly rod made by
Doug Merrick of the Winston Rod Company. “I wanted red winding on the
guides — ‘Like a Leonard rod,’ I said — and a cork grip shaped like a
Payne rod. They were two other fancy rods,”
Thanks for posting that. There are some great comments and questions
at the end too. I like this one (from the main interview):
And two, we can position lugged steel bikes as the better-safer-
smarter alternative to carbon, but they can’t, because carbon’s their
bread and butter. It would be
I certainly can't say that I know Grant, although I've spoken to him
by phone many times since I bought my Riv Road in 1996. I admire him
a great deal. Creating a successful bicycle business with a modest
amount of seed money and a mailing list derived from the Bridgestone
Owners Bunch (BOB) is
Grant has noted in other posts (on the Hunqapillar, iirc) that Kasei
makes the
very best tubing avail and some of that is used in the 'Pillar
Not to split hairs, but I think all Grant said about Hunqapillar
maintubes was that the tubing was the most expensive they could find.
That's precisely
Does this list operate any other way?
:)
Not to split hairs,
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Grant's post was timely as I've been obsessing over decals/tubing
details when searching for old bikes on craigslist to restore. I did
learn a few things about tubing, but need to cool the label search
down and focus on clearances, fit, construction quality, and the other
important factors Grant
Caught these over on Urbanvelo:
http://mollettadesign.com/products-page/biciband/biciband-grigio/
The makers are promoting them for fixies. Seems to me they would work
just fine with any traditional road pedal, no matter the drive train.
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Not at all related to the link above, but cool anyhow:
http://lemolobags.wordpress.com/
I have a set of Lemolo panniers. They are very well made and look
great. If this project bears fruit, there may be more of his swell
product at a more attainable price.
On Feb 10, 8:34 pm, JoelMatthews
Here's the tubing decal I want:
http://tinyurl.com/4lngmke
On Feb 10, 5:20 pm, Oliver S. os...@pdx.edu wrote:
Grant's post was timely as I've been obsessing over decals/tubing
details when searching for old bikes on craigslist to restore. I did
learn a few things about tubing, but need to cool
We stopped by Velocity Coop in Alexandria, Va. and saw two 90s Rivs
for sale, $1,200 built. Call them for more info. Too small for us,
both were about 55 cm seat and top tubes c-c. Plus Paramounts (one
fully chromed) and an 80s Serotta.
As I was riding home this evening on my DTT Sam, in the dark, 17
degrees F, on an ice-covered bike trail, the thought struck me as it
has many times before that I've enjoyed riding this bike more than any
other two-wheeled contraption that I've had in the past 50 years, and
there have been many.
Here's some I'm working on.
http://bagsbyelyinsf.blogspot.com/2011/01/next-step-8-5-5-randonneur-handlebar.html
On Feb 10, 11:16 am, Thomas Lynn Skean thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net
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Those are some cool panniers. If you ever consider making a set in a
sort of Etsy way, let me know off-list.
LOVE the trivia - THANKS GRANT!!!
That was the most interesting post I've read in quite awhile (yes, I'm
a nerd.)
Mostly, I enjoyed your explanation of the reasons for choosing
different tubes--makes perfect sense. My AHH beautiful to look at, but
more importantly is an absolute delight to ride,
My fave: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3649220336_ce38943b09.jpg
Can't beat that!
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Roger rogerdhod...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's the tubing decal I want:
http://tinyurl.com/4lngmke
On Feb 10, 5:20 pm, Oliver S. os...@pdx.edu wrote:
Grant's post was
I posted a short review with pics on my first build and experiment with dyno
lighting on my rain commute bike (Riv content - 80's Japanese lugged mtb
with some Riv parts). I will be adding this kind of kit to my Hilsen first
chance I get...
http://stonehog.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/dyno-good/
I would have to agree with you. I got some Powergrips for my daily
commuting and errands and I love 'em
On Feb 10, 6:34 pm, JoelMatthews joelmatth...@mac.com wrote:
Caught these over on Urbanvelo:
http://mollettadesign.com/products-page/biciband/biciband-grigio/
The makers are promoting
Ely I'm going to have to take some time and browse that blog of yours.
On Feb 10, 12:45 pm, Ely Rodriguez elyk...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's some I'm working
on.http://bagsbyelyinsf.blogspot.com/2011/01/next-step-8-5-5-randonneur-...
On Feb 10, 11:16 am, Thomas Lynn Skean
Thanks Thomas. If I ever do I'll let you know.
On Feb 10, 10:16 am, Thomas Lynn Skean thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net
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Those are some cool panniers. If you ever consider making a set in a
sort of Etsy way, let me know off-list. I've no idea how much you
might charge for something like that,
ah...my eyes! I had to look at aluminum!!!
With so many variables, so many assumptions, it is pure bliss when you
can get the right frame for you. But you have to ride a bunch of frogs
before you find the right one.
~Mike
On Feb 10, 10:07 pm, cyclotourist cyclotour...@gmail.com wrote:
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