I had the exact same reaction! I thought, how can that have been my bike? I had
so much stuff on it...
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Hey all, here’s an updated list, still have some stuff for sale. Prices
include shipping, thanks!-Mike
-Velo Orange Quill Stem with removable faceplate( brand new/ nickel finish)
9cm/ 31.8 clamp. $68
- 2 Velo Orange long setback seatposts. 27.2 $35 each
-Shimano bar end shifter pods-
Michael, I sent a PM for the pods last week. Gimme a holler at joeremi62 at
gmail dot com.
Thanks,
Joe Bernard
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I'm not in love with the Big Front Rack on my MITlantis. I only need a
front rack to occasionally take a laptop and a couple books to work in
small panniers and the Bid Rack feels like overkill. I'm not planning to
put a basket on the Atlantis either. I know the Hub/Hoop is pretty new so
not
Eric, I don't trust the private message system in google, but would love to
pick up your seat bag if not already claimed.
Thanks!
Kurt Henry
Lancaster, PA
On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 1:05:15 PM UTC-4, Eric Norris wrote:
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> Another find from the Bike Room closet. Handmade waxed cotton (very
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No affiliation, just temptation.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/58cm-RIVENDELL-Hunqapillar-USED/163200566602?hash=item25ff83054a%3Ag%3AyjwAAOSwE69bcbXI&_sacat=7294&_nkw=rivendell&_from=R40=nc&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1312.R1.TR11.TRC3.A0.H0.Xr.TRS1
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Another find from the Bike Room closet. Handmade waxed cotton (very waxy)
canvas and leather seat bag. Big enough to hold a couple of tubes and basic
roadside repair tools. Needs a leather toe strap or similar to attach it to the
seat. A slight amount of patina; no rips, tears, or holes.
$12
Very nice!
I ended getting a BMC to fill this craving. If the price were a bit lower
i'd bite!
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Gabriel Bruguier
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> https://www.ebay.com/itm/58cm-RIVENDELL-Hunqapillar-USED/
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Yep yep, it's here and I'm uncustomarily slowly getting it built. I injured
myself last week and was kinda outta commission for a bit, but I'm ready to
ride today so I'm connecting cables as we speak. The first pics will be with
comically tall and reaching-back Boscos: I pulled them from my
Grey medium Sackville Saddlesack in excellent condition 185.00 plus shipping. I
can send pictures if you email me. Thanks
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I ride my blue 53 Rambouillet 650b with Tektro R559 650b x 42 Compass
tires. Kool Stp thinline pads for even extra reach for the braking track on
rim. Same bb height as a 650b Bleriot with 38mm tires, so safe around
corners . I use 170mm cranks.
No need for braze-ons. Oodles of clearannce
Some thoughts:
With some LR brakes, you should be able to fit Barlow Passes (I was able to).
Or you could do a 650b conversion with the LR brakes and fit some 40's.
I think the only benefit of adding post mounts would be less brake flex, but
then I'd say go with post mounted centerpulls.
Center pull brakes would maximize fender/tire clearance without requiring
brazing and paint.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Mike K. wrote:
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That first one with the quick-releases looks like a Nigel Smythe Big Box. They
must have prototyped one with a Baggins patch.
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I'll take the grabsack. I'm sending you a pm...thanks.
On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 12:35:33 PM UTC-5, Steven Sweedler wrote:
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> The Grab sack is in excellent condition, used very little, is very well
> made, $45 shipped
>
Since a few of my early saddle wedges have popped up for sale recently, I
thought I'd let folks know that I still make these, with a bump up in
quality of materials since I began making these several years ago.
Link here:
https://treetop.bigcartel.com/product/medium-saddle-wedge-waxed-canvas
Dropping price again, this time to $225. Someone please come and put them to
use!
Doug
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Gang, I love my blue Ram. It rides well and it fits me just right. I'm
currently rocking some 700c x 32 Panaracer tires, but after this weekend's
wet and muddy ride, and with the Ram being my only bike, I want bigger
tires, preferably some Barlow Pass or even Gravel King (SK?) but the
current
Here it is 650b with tons of clearance.
https://www.flickr.com/gp/70237737@N00/zD46Mb
I tried 700 x 32 but fenders too close.
700 x 28 better but fall hazard as I get sub-28mm tires stuck in road
cracks and crash.
So 32 minimum for me from now on.
or 650b x 42.
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Another question: should I maybe consider center pulls?
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Why not grab some Paul Racers. Super good brakes.
On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 3:33:52 PM UTC-4, Mike K. wrote:
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> Gang, I love my blue Ram. It rides well and it fits me just right. I'm
> currently rocking some 700c x 32 Panaracer tires, but after this weekend's
> wet and muddy ride, and
Thanks for the pics. That turned out great. That's probably the way to go.
Less $, I don't have to go bikeless, and it doesn't permanently alter the
frame.
On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 2:56:33 PM UTC-5, Lum Gim Fong wrote:
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> I would at least try 650b before brazing as it is an easily
I would at least try 650b before brazing as it is an easily reverse-able
experiment, if you have the spare wheels.
But you will need Thinline pads with R559 to reach the braking area of the
rim satisfactorily, IME.
Or those Really long centerpulls Dia Compe makes.
Braking feels fine to me with
Deal pending.
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Not to counter the joe young web tool or Bills advice on a talking to a
fitter, but your distance would be shorten by the difference in stem
length, see example below
Your state the bars are 3cm below the saddle. Assume your saddle to stem
CL distance is 65cm. The horizontal saddle to stem
Apparently enough crazies are overloading their Wald baskets on Nitto
racks, breaking them and suing over it that now Nitto is saying "no
baskets". Rivendell cares what Nitto says, and so Grant posted on the
Blahg that we shouldn't run baskets. There have been other vendors
claiming Nitto
Someone mentioned them recently...and their was a sad incident in BC still
unfolding
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/police-id-woman-missing-in-mudslide-near-cache-creek-1.4783695
Yikes
EricF
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hello david, i have frequently clicked on the link to your website and i'm
perpetually impressed with the quality of the work. it is a hobby of mine
to support smaller operations like yours appears to be, and my girlfriend
never tires of rolling her eyes about [the never-ending growth of] my
I like John’s remark. Too often lost in the exact formula is appreciation of
how little or how much variation there is.
To OP: If your stem a quill type with an expander bolt, I don’t know why you
wouldn’t look at other stems and measure distances to get estimates of minimum
insertion for
There's also way too many crazies buying a cheaper Nitto rack Riv doesn't sell,
then dropping a basket on it and tossing a 12-pack in there cuz gnarly bro.
Don't be crazies.
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Save weight with cans and keep it down to a sixer.
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Anyone converted a Ram to 650b using Paul racers? If so, will it clear a
42mm tire with fenders?
Thanks,
Tommy
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:46 PM Leslie wrote:
> If you switch your 539s out with 559's, you should be able to adjust it
> enough to get the pads to fit 650b's, could go w/ 42's.
Remind me why we're piling cargo on top of a rolling wheel that's also steering?
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Also remember that the decal sets are all gone. So, if you wanted to repaint
after brazing on canti posts, it's not going to say "rambouillet."
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It looks great. You should keep this for a long time :)
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i wonder just how catastrophic or dangerous these rack failures are for the
rider. if you think about it, a rack falling into the spinning front wheel
would be shot forward with the rotation of the tire. i'm not saying i'd
want this to happen but i can't picture a strut breaking causing the
"You should keep this for a long time."
Definitely fer sure! 來
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Yeah, I use a Tubus rear rack on the front of my Bomba as my Wald carrier
(well, there's a Platrack between the two, to keep the basket more stiff...
my intent was leave the basket/platrack as a combo, to come on and off the
rack as needed, but, have gotten to where I usually just leave it
I've had a heavily loaded, but not overloaded, front rack fail on me once,
albeit not a Nitto and it was partially mounted to the eyelets at the fork.
It basically pivoted around the hub and caught the front wheel on the
downswing, jammed the wheel, and almost sent me over the handlebars
On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 6:20:52 PM UTC-7, Collin A wrote:
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> Lesson: Check those rack bolts often and have a backup in the form of the
> manny strap (at least until Riv solves all of our basketed-rack-woes)
>
For critical applications, one may want to consider using Nord-lock washers
There's always Tubus ...
Patrick Moore, overloading Tubus Flys since 1996. (But not using baskets.)
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I should say front or rear rack.
Brynnar
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Well that's a dang nice bike. My first Riv was a Romulus and this felt
instantly familiar, with the same light, springy feel. Does anyone make a
better riding/steering bicycle than Grant/Riv? I think not!
I started with the Boscos which of course make no sense at all, but it was good
enough
Nice build! If not for the skinnier wheels, it almost looks like an 80's
MTB (and speaking of MTB, September 12th...)
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If you switch your 539s out with 559's, you should be able to adjust it
enough to get the pads to fit 650b's, could go w/ 42's. (That's what I did
with my
Ram:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leslie_bright/8351735340/in/album-72157623199721925/
)
You could try sidepulls instead, not a bad
The problem with rating racks is their static load tolerance can look
humongous (while their proper rating looks silly small), but in the dynamic
situation of a bouncing bicycle, the weight of that load becomes 10 times
its mass.
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Yeah, I'm not really sure on that. It's certainly "the thing to do"
nowadays though.
On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 9:02:58 PM UTC-5, Joe Bernard wrote:
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Also, we, or at least I, don't know the conditions under which the Nitto
racks in question failed. Me, I have carried quite heavy loads (for such
light racks) but for no more than 10 or 15 miles 1-way, and generally half
that or even less; and all this on paved roads.
Still, I do wonder at the
Where does it rub, if you tried putting larger tires? Going from 539 to 559
changes the reach, but may not magically offer more room for bigger tires.
I ask this because I suspect your issue is crowding from the bottom side of
the brake arms. If this is the case, you should consider changing
The no longer made Tubus Fly was rated at 22 kg, iirc, or 44 lb. Perhaps it
was 20 kg. It weighed 11 oz and attached with single, clamped-on strut at
the rear caliper mounting bolt. Pretty clear weight of rack to weight of
load limit ratio. I used them for 20 years, almost, on many bikes, as
I would love to see RBW make a “decailer” (MUSA spelling there, or “D-kaler”)
that would hold the rack up even in the event of a fork crown attachment
failure. Keep it stem bolt mounted and a tight pin fit like the “Nitto for
Pearl stem” decailers have, but then RBW could get the guys at NITTO
I have one from them for pearl stems.
But i am talking about a bar that comes from stem to backstop to block the rack
from moving forward.
A regular decaleur could do this, utilizing the bag as the blocker of the
backstop (since top o bag is held to stem by decaler) unless the backstop is
able
Yes, fenderless.
I grow increasingly concerned, over the years, of front end wrecks due to the
possibility of fender or rack failures as I have read about them happenning,
and now the latest blagh post. I meticulously mount fenders so as to be as
in-built stress free as poss. But I still
All the advice is good, but the "buy another Riv" advice is best, in my
opinion. Practically every bike they make now - and most you'll find used - can
run bigger tires than the Ram. The Sam and new AHH are raging deals for what
you get, and you can save that increasingly rare Rambouillet for
Ron, the *static* weight of the load is always 10 times its mass (when
working in SI, otherwise its 32.2 times the mass in slugs). The dynamic
weight of your load is whatever your 12-pack of beer (about 4.5 Kg) is
accelerating at (relative to gravity) just as it hits the basket again;
If you want to haul a 12 pack, a 5 lb salami, cooking gear, etc., get
something from Surly.
I've used the small Nitto front rack with the single pin that mounts thru
the fork crown and welded on legs (non-adjustable) that attach the fork
blades on my Atlantis for well over 10 years. All the
To eliminate sounds from the valve stem, you can cut a small hole (or slice
an "X") in a 1.5-2" section of electric tape, slide the stem through the
hole, and stick the tape on the rim. But I see you're running tubeless, so
this may not apply to you as tubeless valve stems are generally quite
The mfr's load limit for the Fly was indeed 20 kg, or 44 lb -- 2.2 lb to
the kg; I was confused. I did max it out once or twice.
Not nearly as pretty as one of the Nittos though.
Presently using Chauncey Matthews customs; probably less strong than the
Tubuses but again, no breakage yet.
On Tue,
Lum, I believe Compass cycles makes what you are describing:
https://www.compasscycle.com/shop/components/stems-decaleurs/compass-decaleur/
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I agree, Patrick, definitely not as pretty as the Nitto. Part of the high
load rating for the Tubus (and most rear racks for that matter) is that
most of the load is transferred vertically to the eyelet bolts near the hub
rather than the clamped on strut at the top. The Nitto front (or any
PS- that Compass one only keeps the pins from jumping out if you hit a big bump.
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I'm feeling a bit too stretched out on my new rando bike with noodles. It
currently has a 110cm stem, and the bars are a good 2 or 3 cms below saddle
height. Can't raise the stem, it's a custom job and doesn't have any room
for extenstion. At least not that I feel comfortable with. Since it's
Hi Sean,
I use this tool to play around with stem reach/height.
http://yojimg.net/bike/web_tools/stem.php
David
On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 9:54:10 AM UTC-5, Sean Steinle wrote:
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> I'm feeling a bit too stretched out on my new rando bike with noodles. It
> currently has a 110cm stem, and
Hi all,
Thanks for the weight-saving tips and kind compliments. I usually use
padded bike shorts or bibs for rides over 50 miles long. For shorter rides
I'll usually use the MUSA shorts and knickers. I did rides in the rain and
the fender coverage was excellent and I didn't notice spray going
Hi Chris,
I am not really in the market for anything at the moment but I did want to
let you know I think the site looks fantastic! The work and the quality of
that work you are doing really shows so thanks. I am a little more mobile
now (have been car-free, now with car, the ultimate bike
Thank you Bob. I'm doing what I love, and you can't ask for much more than
that.
Chris
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:25 AM Bob Lovejoy wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I am not really in the market for anything at the moment but I did want to
> let you know I think the site looks fantastic! The work and
Thank you to everyone who has purchased a thing or two off our new site.
While building a new website was a larger job than I had anticipated,
adding all the stuff has proven to take even longer. I'm slowly getting
all the Sackville stuff added, and I recently added a couple of things that
I
Be mindful of the rear dropout spacing on your bike. It's 126 and it can spread
to 130 okay by hand. Many 650B wheelsets in THIS group and the 650B list are
built on Deore or similar hubs which run 135 and won't fit in your bike. My '84
660 has 650B Velocity Aerohead rims on old Japanese
Hey Patch!
I got the Grand bois promenade handlebars, with Tektro inverse brake levers
(http://www.cyclesgrandbois.com/SHOP/GB_PN.html).
I also have a 1x crankset - 38t Wolftooth Narrow wide onto a Sugino 165mm
crank arms
Let me know if any of that interests you.
Thanks!
Phil
Arlington,
I have fixed noisy valve stems by installing one of those little knurled
nuts on the stem and snugging it down.
On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 6:53:33 PM UTC-7, Tony DeFilippo wrote:
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> The hub is an ultegra 6700... Thanks everyone for the things to go check!
>
> So tonight I got the wheel in
David,
That's fantastic! Thanks! Since it's a custom I'm not sure I can get ahold
of my bikes actual angles, but I think I can ballpark it well enough.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:07 AM, David B wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> I use this tool to play around with stem reach/height.
>
Keep in mind when fitting your bike that you not only want it to fit well
while you're seated but also while you're standing and climbing a hill.
While when seated your reach to the handlebar may seem long, while standing
the forward position of the handlebar relative to the cranks is rarely long
Is it feasible for you to consult a competent bike-fitter? Having a
conversation and an in-person consultation with somebody who knows what
they are doing and understands you and your use-case well would be a good
investment. Also decide if your body today is exactly the body you want to
My 58cm is 168mm.
Pauly
Stillwater, MN
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I've got a 58, and it's 170mm as you guessed.
Adam Adeane
Brooklyn, NY
On Monday, August 13, 2018 at 3:29:05 PM UTC-4, Dave Grossman wrote:
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> In order to help me ID a Quickbeam sizewise, can any owners help me
> out?
>
> Can you tell me your respective headtube lengths for a 56, 58, and
Congrats! Did your Orangini ship out yet?
I, myself, ordered a 50cm (80 PBH) last week and was thinking I might be
able to size up to 54, but stuck with the posted guidelines instead. As I'm
setting this up as more of a "road bike", I think I did the right thing.
Excited to see pics of your
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