Would love to see some high-quality retro-style friction thumb shifters and
bar-end shifters. The old polished aluminum Shimano m700 and Suntour XC
shifters from the mid-80s were far superior to any friction thumb shifters
available today, including the Paul bases with add-your-own shifters.
+ 1 for this. The Nitto mount RBW sells, or used to sell, is no good for
modern saddles with rails that -- unlike those of the B17 -- are not
vertical at the rear: when mounted on, say, a Flite, the Nitto angles
downward, severely cutting into the space above the rear tire. Design it to
clamp to
Cunningham drop bars.
Everyone who gets into making flared drops has to redesign them to eliminate
some imaginary flaw. I like the originals, and would buy a pair.
I'd even buy a bullnose version!
Philip
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The wide-flare Nitto RM-014 Dirt Drop is pretty darn close, but it's only
available in a 31.8 mm clamp diameter! Maybe Riv could get them to make a
batch with 25.4 or 26.0 clamp diamter, in heat treated aluminum. I'd buy a
couple!
Once I realized that none of my bikes could fit the RM-014 (no 1
How does RM-014 compare to the old WTB-Specialized-Nitto RM-2? I've got an RM-2
on my Rawland rSogn and like it.
David G in San Diego
On Nov 26, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Tim Gavin tim.ga...@littlevillagemag.com wrote:
The wide-flare Nitto RM-014 Dirt Drop is pretty darn close, but it's only
Since they are not componenteurs, but they do have their own Silver line
and bag line, etc.
I'll start:
*Decaleurs.* I have recently been searching for decaleurs, and there seem
to be slim pickin's in the bike biz these days. 5 total I have found.
1 inexpensive and 1 mid point pricing models
Don't want to start a high trail debate but I personally wouldn't tell
someone to have weight up high on the bars like you see on porteur low
trail bikes. That being said developing a declauer seems to be counter
intuitive to how Rivendells perform. Oh, this is all IMO, YMMV.
On Nov 25, 2014 6:20
Really?
Because between the Nitto, the VO, the Bertoud, the Klick-fix, and any one
of the neat hack-it-yourself options, I'm not sure the world is dying for
another decaleur.
cc
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 3:20 PM, lungimsam john11.2...@gmail.com wrote:
Since they are not componenteurs, but they
I’d be interested to see what Grant and company would come up with if they
designed a crankset. I’m intrigued by the modern Rene Herse crankset that
Boulder Bicycles sells, but it’s a little pricey. I’m sure Grant could design a
retro-looking crank (square tapers, of course) and produce it for
On 11/25/2014 07:51 PM, Goshen Peter wrote:
don't some of them attach to the stem? or am I mistaken?
Some handlebar bags attach to the stem. Porteur racks do not.
There's a huge difference between the two concepts: no reasonable person
would put 5 kg in a handlebar bag even with the best
What would you like in a crankset that isn't offered now?
It's hard to beat the Sugino that Riv sells.
If they start with a new forging, then it would be hard to keep the price
reasonable. Is it worth two to three times the cost of the Sugino just to
get a lower Q factor? At that point you could
I really don’t care about Q factor—it’s more about aesthetics. I’d like to see
what it would look like.
OTOH, Velo Orange does a pretty good job with their retro-styled cranks. I have
them on three bikes at the moment.
—Eric N
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On Tuesday, November 25, 2014, Eric Norris campyonly...@me.com wrote:
I really don’t care about Q factor—it’s more about aesthetics. I’d like to
see what it would look like.
OTOH, Velo Orange does a pretty good job with their retro-styled cranks. I
have them on three bikes at the moment.
I wish they could make a 98/74 crank.
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 4:30:34 PM UTC-8, Eric Norris wrote:
I’d be interested to see what Grant and company would come up with if they
designed a crankset. I’m intrigued by the modern Rene Herse crankset that
Boulder Bicycles sells, but it’s a
As with most things that VO sells, I think their cranks are about 80-90%
there, design wise.
The anodizing isn't all that great and how hard could it be to center the
fluting on the front of the crank arm. Campy, Suntour, shimano, Sugino, et
al. Seemed to have no problem doing both for decades.
A better saddlebag mount for Carradice style saddlebags. The saddlebag loops
on saddles, the Nitto QR mount, the Bagman, etc. all leave a lot to be desired.
All of them allow the bag to sway and move around which is not good when
climbing out of the saddle.
Jobst Brandt had one on his bike
I'm pretty sure Riv is working on a crankset right now. Grant's mentioned
it several times and I believe it's complete except for deciding (or
achieving) the correct finish.
On Tuesday, November 25, 2014 6:30:34 PM UTC-6, Eric Norris wrote:
I’d be interested to see what Grant and company
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