Beautiful dog (a few photos down). Here's two of ours, Syd and Dude.
Aussies, but Dude has some Spaniel stuff goin on. (Riv content? None I
guess, I just dig dogs.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80252840@N06/8705204618/in/photostream/
On Friday, May 3, 2013 6:31:26 AM UTC-7, JimD wrote:
The
My wife worked at Friday Harbor Labs one summer and sometimes she would
hitch a ride on this back to Port Townsend.
http://www.pugetsoundexpress.com/whale-watching-and-wildlife-tours/san-juan-island-ferry/
This has nothing to do with your Seattle to Anacortes route but others
have noted
I believe that for those two metals aluminum is the electron donor and once
a surface layer of aluminum oxide forms the contact area is perfectly
insulated from redox.
On Saturday, May 25, 2013 6:59:45 AM UTC-7, Michael wrote:
So should I grease the collar area of the ChroMo bar if my stem
When I started following rbw discussions four years ago it seems like
there were frequent debates about things like carbon vs steel that would go
on for days with literally hundreds of posts. I understand that for long
term members those debates were just a tedious rehash of stuff that they
... I am in no way affiliated with the bicycle industry other than as
a reformed racer and someone who now rides for fun and utility and
who works on Bike Trains and Ride to School programs, but since I'm
seen on a bike often, there's a pre-supposition that I know
This made me recall an
58 cm Specialized Expedition touring frame, fork, headset, seat post
and cantilever brakes for $350. The frame has scratches and a bent
chain hanger but is straight and sound with no dents. I live in
Portland, OR on the weekend and Olympia, WA during the work week so
can accommodate local pick-up
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/bik/3140990864.html
I don't know anything about this bike, its rivendelledness or the seller
but I stumbled upon this ad while searching for a cheap bike for a friend
and recalled that it was coveted by someone in this group.
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In a post to this forum a few weeks ago, Grant Peterson said that he
got this bike to inspect the paint and discovered that the rear brake
bridge on it won't work with side-pulls. That's what drove the change
to cantilever brakes.
On Apr 19, 9:55 pm, Earl Grey earlg...@gmail.com wrote:
My guess
If you are buying an expanded frame model like the Sam Hillborne you
don't have to be so accurate because each frame size fits a wide range
of PBHs. I think the 52 cm Sam Hillborne fits 78PBH84.
On Apr 24, 6:16 am, Mojo gjtra...@yahoo.com wrote:
Yes, pull up with force and off to the side. The
Could you measure and report the mid top tube standover of your
simpleone explicitly? The quickbeam chart says 83 and 85 cm standover
for the 58 and 60 cm bikes respectively. In one of the rivendell
messages they said PBH minus 23 or 25 cm for the simpleone. That
would put you (and me) on a 60
Perhaps Rivendell beefed up the Sam Hillborne this year because they
believed they would have the AMOS to sell to lighter customers. I
wish they could take that project back from SOMA and actually build a
$1000 frame/fork positioned between the Roadeo and AHH.
On Jun 6, 5:00 pm, Steve Palincsar
There is also a 66 cm rambouillet frame and fork on Portland (OR)
craigslist for $1100.
On Jun 28, 11:01 am, James Warren jimcwar...@earthlink.net wrote:
Riv's measurements are C-T, so this would be the 63 cm. Let's say the
difference between C-C and C-T were 1.5 cm. (That's just an estimate
There is a blue one for sale on Seattle craigslist right now.
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:36:31 PM UTC-7, Kieran J wrote:
Hey Y'alls,
I'm looking for a 64cm Ram frameset.
Colour-wise, I'd prefer orange, blue, green, in order of preference. Of
course, that's only if you have one each
Throughout this 2011 interview and Q/A are comments about some of the
original conceptions for this bike.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2772-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-rivendell
On Monday, September 3, 2012 3:08:24 PM UTC-7, Matt Beebe wrote:
I remember reading on the blug about this
Why are the rear dropouts a joke? What's wrong with them? I thought the
San Marcos lugs and dropouts were from rivendell, the same as they use on
their other bikes.
On Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:26:20 AM UTC-7, Tony Lockhart wrote:
Yup, the San Marcos has a bit of a metallic sheen to it
I think those bikes are built by the same manufacturer in Taiwan so is the
quality control on the Sam Hillborne much better than on the SOMA?
On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 7:06:58 PM UTC-8, Tony Lockhart wrote:
Thanks Aaron! I agree, the front brake caliper in the photo is out of
There's a note on the Hillborne page that says the next batch will go to 55
cm and a note in yesterdays e-mail that the 55 cm Betty Foy is 650B but is
there additional information that the 55 cm Sam Hillborne will be 650B?
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 9:04:23 AM UTC-8, Mike Schiller wrote:
I ended up with the albatros bars that came on my wife's betty foy on my
mb-3. I didn't have mountain brake levers so I used road brake levers set
up moustache bar style. i've never had any problem getting my hands to
the brake levers in time to stop.
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 9:50:43
There was a blug or email note about this several months ago. I'll never
find it but the gist was that he (Grant) turned the project over to someone
on his staff to refine or rework the design and when that is finished
he'll make prototype/production decisions. Of course, you may be asking
I think in 2011 their idea was to start with the ca. $1000 Sam Hillborne
frame/fork, use less expensive cromoly tubing, modify the geometry so you
could span most PBHs with three sizes and then not paint the bike at all to
get to $700. The buyer would spray paint the frame for a few dollars to
I think Rivendell has been pretty clever to make sure that $1K frames are
not an uncompromised substitute for $2K frames. Had the San Marcos been
designed for long reach side pull tire clearance and the Sam Hillborne been
designed with road bike angles, they would likely have sold more of
I don’t think the original concept of the “budget riv” was in response to
demands from customers for a cheaper bike than the Sam Hillborne. I think
Rivendell, on their own, saw a niche for a new, stealthy, and more useful
bike for people (like me) who mostly ride an old bike around town
I bought one of the (incorrectly painted) 2 top tube 56 cm Sam Hillborne
framesets on the web specials page two months ago knowing that it would
be really difficult to resell if I didn't like it. Rivendell had trouble
selling them and they got some negative comments here.
On Sunday, October
Right, $990 and then another 10% because I saw the one day flash sale
notice. I've been waiting to see if the budget riv commuter
project gets to production but I couldn't resist that much discount.
On Monday, October 21, 2013 3:57:29 PM UTC-7, Michael wrote:
Was that one of the
I thought the Rivendell perspective was that wheel diameter should be
a direct function of frame size and that a 65 cm frame would have a wheel
diameter somewhat greater than 622 mm if such a thing was (readily)
available. I'm just recalling something I think I once read, perhaps in an
old
If the concept is a Sam like single speed, a Betty like single speed
would also be $1200.
On Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:51:59 PM UTC-8, Ryan wrote:
Yeah...as a 61 year old..the idea of a mixte SO appeals. Would push the
price up, I suspect . Good idea,though
On Wednesday, December 11,
My younger brother and I had Schwinn 3 speeds when we were kids in the
1960s. When my brother was 15 he wanted a Raleigh Grand Prix and he saved
$150. My dad took us to a bike store in Portland but the Raleigh was
$180. Dad was a Depression kid, WWII vet and pretty tight but he gave my
That does it. You're grounded from the list for 30 days. I suggest you
use the time to take a long, hard look at your attitude.
On Monday, December 30, 2013 8:15:31 AM UTC-8, LeahFoy wrote:
Will I get thrown off the list if I say I don't like the new mixte? I
guess orange and blue
This topic reminded me of my first question to Rivendell. I emailed Jay
Ritchey and asked him if the 52 cm Sam Hillborne could be built with 700c
wheels so that you could use the frameset as both a 650b fat tire bike and
a 700c skinny tire bike. Jay replied that he thought there was enough
I did the same thing 30 years ago. Walked into a bike shop with a fist
full of cash to buy a miyata 610 and walked out with a much to small miyata
710.
On Friday, January 31, 2014 10:01:13 PM UTC-8, Anne Paulson wrote:
She bought a carbon Trek Domane, because of course she did.
The Universal Cycles store on Burnside has a showroom with Brooks, Nitto,
Tekro, Sugino, ... and (based on the guy who helped me)
excellent mechanic(s).
On Thursday, March 13, 2014 7:37:11 AM UTC-7, iamkeith wrote:
My Rambouillet was originally sold at Coventry Cycles when they were a
I have no advice but here is an anode to your cathode. My whole life I’ve
been a $200 bike person. Last year I owned four of them and I was sick of
the clutter so I gathered together one groupset of the best parts, sold or
gave away everything else and bought a new Sam Hillborne frameset. I
This will probably get deleted because I don’t know how to make it not
sound snotty but it is a sincere question. Is the point to get to places
on a bike that would be easier to get to by just backpacking or is the bike
still helping you go farther/faster?
On Friday, March 28, 2014
...the next gear can be an awkward front shift and a 2 or 3 click rear
shift...
So if you are in say 44/15 (2.9) and you shift to a lower gear you go
through 30/11 (2.7) then 44/17 (2.6) then 30/13 (2.3) ... until you get to
where you want to be?
On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 2:36:16 PM
The people on this list have forgotten more about bikes than I’ll ever know
but I was around the golf business when aerospace engineers and materials
scientists started to revolutionize the clubs and the ball. I’m sure that
the intent was to help the average player make better contact, get
When I was stationed at Hill AFB, Utah in the 1980s all my friends were
skiers so I randomly walked into a sporting goods store and, with the help
of a salesperson, bought some skies, boots and bindings. I skied for a few
years and progressed from the bunny hills to steeper slopes and was
This is Grant Petersen's contribution to an RBW thread titled are
Rivendell tubesets proprietary? from a few weeks ago. Sounds like Silver
tubes are newer than your Sam.
Nothing's proprietary here. Related to that, about 25 years ago the Eddy
Merckx brochure listed specs for everything on the
I have a very similar pain and I think it would just heal but for a knee
high Australian shepherd that crashes into me 200 times a day.
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:39:18 PM UTC-7, Liesl wrote:
Hi Friends,
I looked back at previous threads, most notably the link below on short
cranks and
5. There was also a redesigned or updated hunqapillar prototype that
someone bought at the garage sale a few months ago.
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:12:38 PM UTC-7, lungimsam wrote:
I'm confused about some of these developing models over the last two years
which never get into full-on
1.
I don’t see saddles on the Clem page yet. Which saddles would the Clem
algorithm (i.e. 50% of the cost, 75% of the looks, and 90% of the utility
of a B-17) identify?
2.
On Saturday morning I was walking my foster dog on a Mt. Tabor
(Portland) path and
I don't know why he hasn't followed up here but on 1 Aug 14 the guy who
started this thread (Bill) wrote a post titled RBWHQ Spy Photos with
several Riv blessed photos of the prototype Appaloosa frame.
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 7:32:52 AM UTC-8, Richard Rios wrote:
Are there any rides in
On 16 Dec there was a web special for an already built dyno wheel. I put
it in my cart as a Christmas present and while I was figuring out which
lights to get with the wheel, someone else bought and paid for it. So I
ordered the Schmidt wheel with a three week lead time knowing that it
Are there any production frames with a similar 72.5/72.5 and midlong
chainstay geometry? If nothing else I might round up an 80s steel touring
frame and throw a SimpleOne fork on it.
There is a 25 inch 1986 Schwinn Passage for sale on Portland craigslist (in
Vancouver) right now for $250.
A few years ago there was a very funny post here by a good Bay
Area customer who owned a few Rivendells and went to Walnut Creek to buy
their latest design. (I think) Vince told him he had enough bikes and sent
him home. Wouldn't sell it to him. Priceless.
On Friday, December 18, 2015
Dear Rivendell,
I'm passing up a good deal on a nice looking Romulus because I have faith
that you will complete the 'not so Top Secret' Clem/Road bike project. For
those with less patience:
https://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/bik/5723399037.html
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There was a funny thing in one of the Readers where they installed a stem
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What river is that? What's the weir for? Thanks.
On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 7:54:02 AM UTC-7, Virgil Staphbeard wrote:
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> I use an aeropress as well. I also have a reusable drip filter with 'legs'
> that clip onto a cup if i'm trying to go lighter.
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> We have a group that meets pretty much
There are two 62 cm Sam Hillborne bikes and a 62 cm Sam Hillborne frameset
on the Garage Sale pages of the Rivendell website. There is also a
presale special for the new AHH which has some updates and improvements on
the original AHH/Sam designs.
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