This Saturday I took my Roadini and went up Spring Ridge Road (Windy Hill
OSP) and descended Crazy Pete's (Coal Creak
OSP). https://www.strava.com/activities/9109425331
I had one of those amazing days where I was "on". I set PRs down Crazy
Pete's (the last time I did it I was on a MTB with
Those bars look shallow from the side but don't look so shallow front the
side/front. Now I'm curious --- doesn't the flare in those drops make it
harder to use the hoods as a riding position?
On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 6:48:49 PM UTC-7 DavidP wrote:
> Yep, I have a drop-bar MTB that I
Are these the 3 pawl or 4 pawl versions? We broke one of the 3 pawl
versions and Phil Wood refused to warranty it because they didn't have any
3 pawl versions left. We were stuck with a $200 bill to "upgrade" to the 4
pawl version.
On Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 2:00:05 PM UTC-7 jbu...@gmail.com
2 cents: don't get carried away with frame weight, especially when
comparing steel frames. I'd focus more on geometry. I wanted my Roadini
build to scratch the same itch but the long wheelbase didn't align with my
idea of a zippy, skinny-tire road bike.
Geometry is by far the most
Are the FSA Duron headsets that come with Rivs sealed bearings? The FSA
website claims angular contact bearings but lists the seals separately?
On Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at 10:00:56 AM UTC-7 Wesley wrote:
> This advice all applies only to threaded forks (all Rivs except Gus and
> tandem):
> 1.
Grant described the intent of the Rambouillet to me as a French
audax-inspired bike when I spoke to him about a bike for a cross country
ride (and afterwards) that would be a light load, credit card trip versus
self-supported full touring one.
I have to chime in and talk about types of
I never understood the need for groups of cyclists to denigrate the kind of
cycling other people do.
In the 1990s, I rode with a cyclist who was sponsored by Bridgestone, Eric
House (the first man to do Furnace Creek 508 in under 30
hours:
It's supposedly 3 times more durable than hyperglide, which is intriguing.
I saw that even Grant asked a question on this article about linkglide and
friction
shifting:
https://nsmb.com/articles/shimano-inadvertently-upgrades-friction-shifting/
I'm now wondering how compatible it is with my
The AHH has 50cm chainstays, which might make it hard to fit into my bike
box for flying (I use a Trico-Ironcase). The AHH also takes 135mm rear
wheels, while the wheels I had hanging in the garage were all 130mm wheels.
Grant advised against cold setting an AHH. In exchange the Roadini has a
tires this would be my choice for bikepacking
(though I'm light enough the Roadini will serve well there).
On Monday, July 24, 2023 at 7:39:03 AM UTC-7 Piaw Na wrote:
> Oh yeah, the AHH doesn't have downtube shifter bosses, while the Roadini
> does. Again, a minor consideration --- I'm
e.
>
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 12:35 PM Piaw Na(藍俊彪) wrote:
>
>> Doesn't the post-transfer case require fork removal? Is that hard to do
>> on the threaded headset? I've always avoided cases that require fork
>> removal.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 8:40
Oh yeah, the AHH doesn't have downtube shifter bosses, while the Roadini
does. Again, a minor consideration --- I'm happy with my downtube shifter
on my Roadini, but it wouldn't have killed me to go to bar-end shifters.
On Monday, July 24, 2023 at 7:35:31 AM UTC-7 Piaw Na wrote:
> The AHH
My personal solution was to get a tandem (really, a triplet/quad that
converts). The kids love it, and we just rolled over 13k miles on it since
getting it 8 years ago. Other parents will tell me that my kids are
special, and that their kids couldn't stay on a bike that long. I would
take
Ha! It's not just me then! I had to crank down on the seatpost clamp to
keep things from slipping. The masterpiece seatpost doesn't slip as readily
as the kalloy though
On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 1:15:36 AM UTC-7 Nick Payne wrote:
> I was a bit pissed off when I found on delivery that the
When I lived in Munich I'd go for rides every weekend and it was always so
good. Having a train to take you home meant you could range further and get
into bigger trouble. One day I rode through a forest and climbed a ladder
onto what was obviously a road. I rode on it and everyone honked at
I went to college at Cal Berkeley. My first bike in the USA, a $50 walmart
special, got stolen my first year while I was attending a lecture at Warren
Hall. After that pain, I never had a bike stolen again, since I learned to
lock the bike properly and bring it into my house/apartment
I live in California but I ride year round, so I don't avoid rain. I also
take a perverse pleasure in destroying bike parts and bike frames, to the
point where I actually track mileage on various
components: https://blog.piaw.net/2009/04/lifetime-of-bike-parts.html
I check my chain every month
High BB, short chainstays, steep seat-tube angles, and disc brakes? That's
as far away from the Roadini as you can get. Add in wireless shifting and
I'm sorry, that's just not comparable to any Rivendell I've seen!
On Sunday, July 23, 2023 at 2:00:11 PM UTC-7 Nick Payne wrote:
> I've come to
One consideration for credit-card touring is that with the long chainstays
the bike will be harder to pack into a bike case for flying on an airline.
That was the consideration that tipped me towards the Roadini over the A
Homer Hilsen.
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I once rode the Cheviot with the bike club when my wife and kids refused to
keep riding after the lunch stop. I was surprised that I was fast enough to
keep up with the fast riders. If you want to go fast, there are a few
things that the Cheviot does that makes it harder:
1. If you're not
I just realized that I forgot to mention the easiest way to keep up: I
converted my wife's Cheviot into an
ebike. https://blog.piaw.net/2020/12/installation-review-swytch-e-bike.html
On Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 6:01:26 PM UTC-7 Ted Durant wrote:
> On Monday, May 15, 2023 at 8:13:53 PM UTC-5
Also depends on what handlebars you're planning to use. Drop bars - go for
the smaller frame. Upright bars - go for the bigger frame. There's nothing
about the AHH that would preclude bikepacking or bicycle touring! I would
happily ride my Roadini on a tour and I now treat it like a 1990s
The geometry diagram for the 47
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1403/7343/files/ROADINI-470-Geo.jpg?7649874663519573416x)
shows a 38mm tire, with 55mm between the chainstays. It probably will take
42mm tires but not more. You can count on 38mm at the very least. With
caliper brakes I
I've now ridden my Roadini for 1000 miles, and I wrote my
review: https://blog.piaw.net/2023/05/rivendell-roadini-1000-mile-review.html
I think I'm agreeing with the folks who say that gravel bikes are simply
1990s style mountain bikes with 700c wheels and 1x drivetrains.
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Low BBs ride better, especially on descents. Does your knee hit the feedbag
on the bars when you switch between sitting and standing? I discovered mine
does on my Roadini, and I now mount it on the other side of the bar. I
guess judging from the bike setup it looks like you're far back enough
It’s good to hear that people like their 1x - Grant talked about it in his
blog and he didn’t have the praise for it I was expecting.
He's never tried 1x with an 11s friction shifter. :-)
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I got out my calipers --- the top tube, head tube, and seat tubes are 29mm
(most likely 28.6), and the downtube is 31.5mm (most likely 31.8). It
doesn't feel stiff to me, but since I broke 2 ti frames, my guess is each
time I broke one my custom builder proceeded to build me bikes with
I used a hybrid 2X crossover/half stepped 7 sp (half-stepped the middle 5,
13 outer with 48/92" for downhills, 32 inner with 45/35" for climbing) for
a while that worked very well (Kelly Take-Offs were the perfect shifter),
but there was a big jump to the 35" low gear. Riv content: 1995 Riv
ed to set up a half
> step drivetrain on a bike with disk brakes just because ... (already have
> another bike with non-aero levers and disk brakes).
>
> On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 8:29 AM Piaw Na wrote:
>
>> I wrote an early article for the Rivendell Reader about half-step and
> would be interesting to use this Sam as a gauge for understanding the
>>> Roadini.
>>>
>>> Aside: I'm thinking (just thinking; action may come but later) of
>>> turning that Libertas into an on-and-offroad beater because I think it will
>>> take a 38 mm tire.
The Ritchey Vector Wing saddles have stealth saddlebag loops (because the
wing doubles as a loop). They're not quite "proper" bag loops, but they
work just as well. Much lighter than a Brooks, and the white version is
currently $24, which is MUCH cheaper than a Brooks or
Rivendell:
11t sprockets are not useless when you have a 1x drivetrain. I use my 11t
on the tandem (38t chainring) and on my single (40t chainring). They don't
get used frequently (which is good, since they'd wear out quickly
otherwise), but once in a while they get used, which wasn't the case back
when
I've been riding SPDs since the mid 1990s when they finally became
affordable. On my tandem/triplet we had one crash caused my the too long
for my kid toe strap getting caught in the timing ring. After that I got
SPD click'r pedals for my kids and they've been riding clipless SPDs since.
(The
Those Nanos are the most frustrating tires I've ever had to change out. It
took me 2 days to get them off my son's Salsa Journeyman. Granted, those
rims are the awful tubeless ready rims which contribute to the problem. I
even had to rest my thumbs in between wheels!
I've had Marathons come on
I owned a Red '93 RB-1 and it died in a car crash that put me in the
hospital for days and in rehab for months. I loved that bike and should
have been more aggressive about using it so that when it died it wouldn't
have hurt so much.
Having said that, it's nowhere as versatile a bike as my
I have about 1300 miles on my
Roadini: https://blog.piaw.net/2023/05/rivendell-roadini-1000-mile-review.html.
With 700x28mm tires it feels as fast as any bike I've ridden that's not
built to be ultralight. I built mine up to be around 20 pounds with pedals,
bottle cage and pump but no toolkit
It's way more flexy/comfy than my Custom Ti bike, which friends already
claim is flexy and comfy when they ride it (and which flexes like crazy
when I attach a trailer to it). It's overbuilt for me @ 145 pounds. If I
was 160 pounds I wouldn't consider it over built, and if I was 200 pounds I
A 24/34 is the same as a 36/51 in gear inches. So there's no advantage to a
triple if you're looking for a low gear.
I moved to a 1x for all my bikes because it turned out that dropped shifts
into the granny were causing me to stand up on many climbs when I should
have shifted. Since there's
I'll chime in. I'm here in the Bay Area (I noticed Sarah mentioned Mt
Diablo), and I've found that Bay Area hills are not kind to triples. I
switched to a 1x and am much
happier: https://blog.piaw.net/2022/06/a-transition-to-1x-drivetrains.html
I'm sure this is a contrarian view, but my take
I've had brake cables and housing good for 15 years on my 3 Ti frames with
a total of around 4 miles, rain or shine (you don't break bike frames
if you don't ride). The brakes worked fine throughout the 15 years and I
only swapped out for newer cables when I got my Roadini and noted how
If you're not going to do serious single track I highly recommend the
PD-ES600. https://blog.piaw.net/2022/10/review-shimano-pd-es600.html
My friends were really skeptical that it would make any difference compared
to the venerable and well respected (deservedly so) M520s, but the wings
and
I went with 11s and a single DT shifter (I'm running 1x11) and I treat my
Roadini as a gravel bike. It's great. Usually I climb on the road so
shifting is not a problem, and descending who cares what gears you're in.
But on the few occasions I did a a dirt climb and I'd just shift into the
On Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 1:14:10 PM UTC-8 Patrick Moore wrote:
George: I daresay Grant would balk at this conversion. And I can understand
his allegiance to rim brakes; of all the kinds of brakes, as far as I can
tell, rim brakes give the biggest return in effectiveness (strength,
I will second the Woom series of bikes for kids. The owner has been been
very responsive over the years to my complaints about the early wooms and
now there's very little to fault about them. The joy a kid has on a nice
bike coming down an MTB trail cannot be
beat:
Bike closet has continental 700x40 Terraspeed tires for $32. At that price
I don't care how quickly they wear out
On Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 5:33:35 AM UTC-8 J Schwartz wrote:
> Building a Roadini and looking for a few used items in good shape:
>
>
>1. Choco bar (norm variety)
>2.
On Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 7:56:30 AM UTC-7 nca...@gmail.com wrote:
@aero and @hoch: I am selling my customized Salsa Vaya 55cm (700c) to fund
this purchase, and the Homer would be my only bicycle (I say that now). I
don't have any specific tires in mind and I wouldn't have any other wheels
I haven't seen the Gallop's geometry,. Can you post it?
As for Leah's original question, my wife rode a Cheviot but after she rode
my son's Roadini to work a few weeks she decided that she really liked the
Roadini better.
We're still vainly hunting for a 50cm Roadini, but the other bikes I'm
You can't do that if you're using 11s or more. Rejoining 11s and up chains
using a chain breaker is not recommended. My "trick" is to buy 11s chains
at $10/pop when they go on sale once a year and a bunch of quick links at
the same time.
On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 11:31:11 AM UTC-7 Armand
What I’m reading is that most of you concur that Grant is not right all the
time (with regards to bike design). Big companies are not right all the
time. He’s right some of the time, as are the big companies. Answer, as
always, is somewhere in the middle.
I think it's laughable to think
My Roadini has a 45cm chainstay. My custom touring bike has a 43cm
chainstay. When riding it doesn't make a big difference --- I'm far more
sensitive to the 5mm higher BB on the Roadini. When packing it to tour 2cm
is not a huge difference either. The A Homer Hilsen has a whopping 50cm
I went to adjust it on my son's Roadini today and discovered that it had
fallen off (probably during an off-road excursion). What's the easiest way
to get a replacement?
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I built up my son's Roadini with Ritchey Beacon Comp bars
(https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/Hdny6ViFROaPcQIM_FkEbg.aW9haXdpnlfOy4Dg9_oNzx),
and I've had a few people test ride it. What impressed me about the bar was
that despite purposefully not mentioning anything about the handlebars,
My wife enjoyed riding the Roadini so much that when my son (for whom it
was built) took it over she asked for her own. Since Rivendell no longer
has them I'm now in the market for a Roadini 50cm. Frame only unless you've
got it built up with 1x. (My wife never used the front derailleur on her
I'm a big fan of half-step + granny for 7-speed rear cassettes and
freewheels. I think I even wrote an article about it for the Rivendell
Reader at one point (good luck digging it up!). What killed it for me was
once cassettes got to the point where constructing your cassette was no
longer
I own a 54cm Roadini (for myself) and a 50cm (for my son who will soon
outgrow his Salsa Journeyman). I'd set up my Roadini as a gravel bike with
wide tires but recently a friend borrowed my son's Roadini for her first
ride over a dirt path in less than dry conditions I swapped the wheels on
I got a pair of the EZ Mount wheels from Neugent cycling for my wife's new
road bike. They live up to their name.
On Friday, June 7, 2024 at 10:18:28 AM UTC-7 aeroperf wrote:
> Velocity Atlas are also easy to change.
> Sometimes it’s the tires, not the rim. Schwalbe Marathon, I’m looking at
>
I've been building my own bikes since 2007. It's not nearly as hard as
building a wheel. The only issue I can see is the the Sam Hillborne runs
cantilever/v-brakes, which have never worked out for me (I only buy
sidepull brake bikes to sidestep that problem). I recently built my wife's
bike.
I recommend any of the Marin Headlands rides that the Western Wheelers
organize. Routesheets/GPS tracks are
here:
https://westernwheelersbicycleclub.wildapricot.org/page-1859035#LDT_Marin_Headlands
On Monday, June 10, 2024 at 9:52:35 AM UTC-7 vhans...@gmail.com wrote:
> There a set of fire
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