[RBW] Re: Rinko and how it works

2015-12-19 Thread Jan Heine
Thank you, Takashi. I had a great sensei (teacher) - Natsuko Hirose, who was featured in the first Rinko article in BQ, packs her bike in 12 minutes, without any noise from dropped wrenches. At the end, her hands are clean enough to go and eat dinner... A number of cyclotouring trips with her a

[RBW] Re: Rinko and how it works

2015-12-19 Thread Takashi
Very elegantly packed Jan! You are a better packer than most Japanese cyclotourists! Since Rivendell frames are getting longer and longer, packed bike will be larger than Jan's bike. And, since most Riv riders tend to put as much load as possible on their bikes, carrying both your bike and your

[RBW] Re: Rinko and how it works

2015-12-17 Thread Bill Lindsay
I bought a Velo-Orange Rinko Headset and another set of metal fenders purely to try to Rinko-ize one bike. Nowwhich bike? On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 6:55:48 AM UTC-8, Jan Heine wrote: > > There has been a lot of discussion lately of Rinko, so this blog post > explaining the differe