Hi Zed! Thanks for this write up, it made me appreciate my Clem more than I
already do! If possible. This bike is such a great ride, no matter how you set
it up. That being said I wish I shared your same experience with front end
loads as I experience some shimmy with a Nitto big front and
I gotta stop repyling to these things after a certain time of night ;)
Thanks for the grammar reminder. I think I meant people being *chafed* by
the idea of liners, and then I read your other post and my typing took a
detour on me.
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chuffed
CHəft/
*adjective*
BRITISHinformal
1. very pleased.
"I'm dead chuffed to have won"
Zed -- sure, your JA is loaded down and won't be as fast as a sub 20 lb
bike, but what has struck me in recent reviews that riders report that it
feels nimble and fast -- while being supremely
Zed, your speeds described on your loaded Clem are still higher than mine
in my minimally loaded Homer! I guess I still carry the weight on me that
you put in the bike, and probably my total bike + rider weight is still
higher.
Which just reinforces the futility of discussing bike weight and
I'm supposedly long done with dropbars, but my experience at RBW HQ today has
me reconsidering. I was there for the Bike Snob Book Talk, and got to ride a
Roadeo and Appaloosa. Both had drops - a standard bend and Noodle, respectively
- and I loved them! I also loved the 105 brifters on the
Patrick, I'm well used to tire liner chuffing people ;) Fact of the matter
is, at 48mm, they really ride only barely discernibly different, and I have
never had tube sealant deflect a wood nail but I have had that with tire
liners. My poor Compass' are in miserable shape, I noticed earlier
One last remark on the general topic: even such a dyed in the wool roadie
as Jobst Brandt, who for my generation (he was actually 1 generation
earlier than mine -- 1935 versus 1955 -- was the guru par excellence on
bicycle matters, dueling with Sheldon for the top Olympian spot) is
recorded as
Zed -- thanks for that review. From my point of view, at any rate, it's one
of the most informative and helpful reviews of a Riv model that I've read.
I am very chuffed that you and so many others find the newish "cruiser"
style of Rivendell bikes, far from limiting energetic riding, actually
I'm in the middle of your review, and I think it is very well done, but I
interrupt myself here to say:
DON'T USE TIRE LINERS!!! My God, man! No tire liners on *Compass tires* Use
Orange Seal in your tubes instead.
I very briefly used Mr Tuffys with non-Tourguard Paselas, and after about 1
That was a very entertaining/informative read. I agree (and may have mentioned
once) that CLEM may be asking the question, "Why would you need any more Riv?",
but I suppose Riv Riders tend to buy up as the years go by anyway. Or they buy
two CLEMs! I have a green 45 I bought as a frameset and
After switching from my original albastache build to boscos a while back
and getting some more mileage and longer rides under me, I keep meaning to
do a proper medium-term write-up on the Clem and just kept being too busy
to do it. I finally had a quiet evening to sit down and apparently I had
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