Ditto to both William's and Bernard's comments!
How hard would it be at some point in the future to swap-out the
cassettes to fit the needs of a particular ride/event.
I personally wouldn't have a need for an 11T cog, but I'm using 110/74
style cranksets and generally 8 speed clusters.
On Jan
Swapping cassettes is quite easy. There's a lock ring that holds the
cassette on the hub and you just need a tool that Riv sells. Dave
says (above)all the kits are 9 speed but 8/9/10 all fit the same hub
so if you have 8s cassettes you like they'd pop right on. Not sure
about chain
If this had been available in the summer I would have probably done
it.
Since it wasn't, I spent a lot of time working with an excellent LBS
to spec my Sam - mostly because Riv was a lot more $ for the same
stuff.
This way would have come out about the same price, less effort and
probably a few
Any idea why the 8 speed Noodle kit with should be $120 more than the
9 speed Albas?
As far as I can see everything else is the same.
Jay
On Feb 3, 4:14 am, Leslie leslie.bri...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, January 27, 2012 11:31:24 AM UTC-5, Darin G. wrote:
Are these only available with
It still doesn't make sense to me.
Albas $60 + grips $24 + tiagra levers $55 = $139
Noodles $81 + shimano levers $33 = $114
Everything else looks the same.
I'm just asking out of curiousity and because I happened to notice.
I'm quite happy with the pick it yourself build home brew build kit on
We're comparing our prices, not their costs; different items might have lesser
margins than others... Might be, the Noodle sets are inline w/ where they
should be, and they can discount the Albatross sets more... I don't know, just
guessing. I'm not worrying about it, I tend to pick other
the 8sp was a typo. all kits are 9.
noodles and tiagra brake levers cost more than the alba/mtb levers
On Feb 2, 8:25 pm, Jay in Tel Aviv jayin...@gmail.com wrote:
Any idea why the 8 speed Noodle kit is $120 more than the 9 speed
Albas?
As far as I can tell everything else is the same.
Jay
On Friday, January 27, 2012 11:31:24 AM UTC-5, Darin G. wrote:
Are these only available with albatross bars or am I missing
something?
They are now showing Noodles, Albatross, and Moustache bars; pick the bar,
pick the wheelsize, and Bob's your uncle...
:)
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Any idea why the 8 speed Noodle kit is $120 more than the 9 speed
Albas?
As far as I can tell everything else is the same.
Jay
On Feb 3, 4:14 am, Leslie leslie.bri...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, January 27, 2012 11:31:24 AM UTC-5, Darin G. wrote:
Are these only available with albatross bars
The regular Noodles are more than the regular Albas; then the 46 and 48 are
heat-treated Noodles and have an additional upcharge more. The brakes
change out, the levers change out, the tires change out; those are the
things that caught my eye toggling between them. I've not gone through
Are these only available with albatross bars or am I missing
something?
On Jan 26, 11:14 pm, James Warren jimcwar...@earthlink.net wrote:
+1
That 36 is a great gear. Makes me more inclined to ride instead of drive.
On Jan 26, 2012, at 9:20 PM, dougP wrote:
John:
Wonderful
I often read that the 11t is useless, but of course, that depends on your
chainrings. With a modern mountain triple or mountain double, the biggest
ring is 39, 42, or 44t. I'm setting up my Goodrich with a 42/28 crank and a
11-36 10sp cassette.
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I agree with Jim. Anything higher than a 4-to-1 is useless to me, to be
sure, and even a 4-to-1 is only useful when I am in a major hurry on
descents and insist on pedaling beyond 35mph. On one bike which has a
50/34 up front, the 12 cog on a 12-27 cassette is useless, but on another
bike
Agreed. The build kit is for the guy/gal who wants a nice complete bike
from Rivendell. Once you're specing specifics like the cassette, you're out
of the just put one together for me game.
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As somebody who's worked with customers on builds, MOST people don't have
super specific preferences - they just want a configuration that will work
and have an overall aesthetic, possibly with a few minor personal touches.
The advantage of having a kit is that it shortens the phone
Just so's y'all know, Miche makes outer Shimano compatible cogs in
teeth up to 16. Switch out that pissant 11 for a manly 16 t outer. I
use 15 and 16 t outers on the Fargo wheelsets -- 15 for the skinny 40
mm tires and 16 for the fatties. Of course, even these serve mostly as
spacers for even
One more comment, tangential: I just resurrected the Big Apple
wheelset today and did a windy out and back. I am very pleased with
the superbe rolling qualities of the two Schwalbe models I've used,
559X1.35 Kojaks and the 60 mm Big Apples. After riding the Fargo with
Ritchy semi-cross tires for
The build kits seem to be a logical extension of the typical build sheets
listed with some models. It's easy for customers to know the exact cost, and IF
it saves RBW some time there's a discount in it too. I think after one or two
substitutions it might become a typical custom build anyway,
Useless was the wrong term; should have said ...more use out of a
36 large than an 11 small Since the kit includes Riv's standard
Sugino crank with 46t big ring, even the 12 is sorta downhill-with-a-
tailwind or getting chased by a big dog type of gearing. I also
recall something on the Riv
Re: surly completes vs frames
When Surly gets a batch of bikes and frames in, typically they have MANY more
bikes than frames on-hand. I don't have exact numbers, but I think it's not far
off to say they stock 5x as many completes as frames.
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Thanks for noticing, Leslie. These are the components that work so
well together on our frames (and we recommend them time and time
again), so we thought we would make it easier for everyone by offering
them as kits. We knocked a little of the collective price to make it
more attractive, too.
It's a great strategy to streamline the bike selling process. It saves the
Riv-person some time, and it saves the customer a ton of anxiety if they
don't come into the transaction with a bunch of preconceptions. Clearly
this won't be the choice of somebody who has really specific ideas about
I like this. Being a stubborn, self-doer of sorts, I dislike not
working on my own bike. I believe that we are all makers of our own
destiny and we should be have some physical aspect of building or
maintaining our own bikes. That way if something breaks or falls off
you know it's your fault.
On
John:
Wonderful concept but one bit of whining about the 9 speed cassette:
11-32 instead of the 12-36?
I hate to come on like I'm grading papers but IMHO 11t cogs are
useless but a 36t has real value. Sometimes its the little stuff
that's the difference between good great.
dougP
On Jan 26,
+1
That 36 is a great gear. Makes me more inclined to ride instead of drive.
On Jan 26, 2012, at 9:20 PM, dougP wrote:
John:
Wonderful concept but one bit of whining about the 9 speed cassette:
11-32 instead of the 12-36?
I hate to come on like I'm grading papers but IMHO 11t cogs
that is still undecided. From the pics on their site, the prototype
had SRAM Force on it. I believe the write-up on the Riv site indicates that
the final build details are going to be left up to Mark.
Joe
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:44:15 -0700
Subject: [RBW] Re: Build kits for Roadeo
From
I believe that is still undecided. From the pics on their site, the prototype
had SRAM Force on it. I believe the write-up on the Riv site indicates that the
final build details are going to be left up to Mark.
Joe
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:44:15 -0700
Subject: [RBW] Re: Build kits
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:21 PM, usuk2007 clive.stand...@umassmed.edu wrote:
Does anyone have an idea of the parts used to build the comfy vs
light versions of the Roadeo. Just wondering what you get for your
money
Email riv and ask - they are ridiculously quick to respond and
incredibly
I don't want to take up any of Riv's time as I'm not going to buy a
Roadie, I was just interested in the parts selection. From the latest
pictures the economy version has a Sugino XD2 and I imagine the rest
of the parts are from the Riv catalogue too. I was just interested in
the racer spec parts
The groupo on Mark's prototype looks like 2010 SRAM Force.
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