frame sniffing UTT results released:
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not reviewed and countersigned by Level 3 tech, send it back code 2
OK so it’s a Clem.
RIDE LIKE A MONGOLIAN
[quote]On a steep descent it helps to lower the saddle a few inches, push against the handlebar (pommel), then sit on your thighs and hang your butt low off the back of the saddle — to weight the rear wheel for better braking. A bike saddle’s wider at the rear, and the flare is the cantle when you squeeze it with your thighs. In an eyeblink you’re a Mongolian!
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I like how he is accidentally arguing in favor of one of the most modern innovations in mountain biking. But of course his fop frame has no provisions for a dropper and is shown with foot tall luggage that would prevent lowering the saddle at all.
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Holy shit. Precious aesthetic uber alles.
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Really? Hate it, or love it, I find it weird for anyone to be surprised by this. It came out pretty much like I expected, but then I’m a weirdo who’d put on some Jones bars (it is threadless), a hite rite, and go ride the crap out of it. Should anyone looking to go ride modern mountain bike parks buy one for that (or a hite rite)? NO, but I’d still have fun on that bike, and I bet more of you would too than will admit it. As to whether they’ll sell many of them, it doesn’t sound like they’re making many in the first place.
It’s another weird Grant homercar, but it looks like it would be fun.
It also looks like a Jones would do anything this bike does but better.
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There are so few places around here I could imagine having any sort of fun on that thing over using a cross bike or something.
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I could have fun on almost any bike in my size but I already have a free 80s Schwinn that I pulled out of the bushes behind my in-laws house.
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Fucking rim brakes on a “mountainbike” what year is this…?
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I think the day that Riv makes a disco bike is the day that Cthulhu rises from the depths. Those rim brakes are how you tell that it’s not yet the apocolypse.
This bike proves that Grant would rather kill Rivendell and die on the stupidest hill imaginable than acknowledge that some improvements have happened in cycling since 1980.
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QFMFT
Maybe, maybe not, but point me to a time when people HAVEN’T been saying this about Rivendell. He’s a tricksy one, and has avoided paying the ferryman thus far.
Aesthetics, functionality/practicality (or lack thereof) aside: At ~$1500 for a TIG’d Taiwanese frame and fork, I’d rather pony up the extra few hundred for a full custom fillet brazed job.
Regardless of anything, love GP/Riv’s obstinance.
Pretty sure there’s no TIG on this one - combination of fillet and lugged.
Things Grant has been right about:
Steel is a fine material for bicycle frame production
Fat tires are better than skinny tires, generally speaking
Fenders and bags on the bike are pretty great
You can ride a bike in everyday clothes
The jury is still out:
Silly handlebars.
Huge saddlebags
Brooks saddles
Threaded headsets/quill stems
Lugs
Things Grant was right about but is now wrong about:
Carbon fiber for bicycle parts
Disc brakes
Bikes as long as a car
Armored tires with tubes
WAT
Axes
Waxes
Twine
Shellac
Tent sized shirts
Tent sized sharts
Watches
46 slightly different nitto racks
35 slightly different expensive retro material bags
Calling your bicycle company “Rivendell” because you like the nigh unreadable poetry in Tolkien.
Maybe this should go in hot takes.
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Not at all a hot take
More like it’s on the Tarck charter
Which is fluid
Like bud light lime