or some vintage mountaineer re-enact-y canvas napsack and coonskin cap
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bet those leg wrapping things plane heaps bettter than modern technical fabric socks
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Jan is basically the most stereotypical earnest German imaginable.
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I really want to hear an extended defense of the trailer and it’s virtues as it relates to classical French bikepacking.
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“Rinko…but for trailers.”
The trailer. For when your gear just doesn’t quite weigh enough to make you hate the entire experience.
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lmao of course the video starts with Jan rounding a corner. It’s ALWAYS Jan going around some corner.
Oh hey I didn’t see you there thank you for joining us for another round of retro dip parade. Joining us today we have another great example of using too much material for one thing and then using painfully not enough in another to make up for it. Ok now for a rousing game of why does my bars have 7 layers of antique wrap when just one modern layer would do? Well because diddlypunks and ancient science voodoo that’s why.
Oh. About this frame. It’s made from the finest neobshitium. I ride it BecAuse the way it sings horrible moon songs as it twists and cracks under my power watts.
As for brakes we have opted for these 1994 single pulling speed adjusters. Why stop if you can let the ground do it for you amirite?
The trailer? Oh. It’s everything I got to keep in the divorce. You see my partner left me after I sold the family Toyota Camry to buy vintage pushers and well. Here we are. Still gotta get all this shit over that river so ok.
Thanks for watching folks.
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I’m late to the Riv MTB party, and maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but I kind of like it. (Except for those grips- WTF are those?) Seems like a fun bike.
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TC I am kinda in to every single damn Rivendell shop build. I’m sure I’d probably get pissed off if I had to ride them but I still like the vibes
BAN
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I always have problems with stand-over, and the curved top tube seems like it’d be a perfect solution.
I also enjoy Riv. I’d totally buy an Atlantis or a Hillson if it were dirt cheap.
I mean Rivs do ride nice, who knows. My noodle bike rides great too and was custom and actually fits me without a dumb short stem.
The problem with it? Canti brakes kinda suck or I just can’t find a brake with them that works well. Currently using BR_550 which should be fine maybe I need new pads.
I rode 36miles on it on Sunday and didn’t die.
It reminds me those Electra townies, but with knobs and fops. I built several dozen Electras and they were fun to bomb around on, and I’m sure this Rivectra is fun too. Looks goofy, but I’d be down.
He should have used a BUTT ROCKET (Jan won’t touch any butts unless its made by gilles butthoud)
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Not Tarck approved though
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Mixtes are a-ok in my book.
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I rode one of the Nobilette prototypes, and the Rivendell superlong cadillac geometry is actually pretty great and totally its own thing
it’s a less aggressive / more heretical way at arriving in the Jones Zone
One of his big theories is that shorter riders are harmed by shorter wheelbases, that in the balance of things they’re even better served by cadillac weirdness than tall folks. The super swept bars mean that small bikes can still have long cockpits, and you don’t have to overly slacken the HTA to get the front wheel further away. Now that the front end is long, you can stretch the rear too without upsetting everything
This is the cheaper less crazy one that’s available with a fun complete build:
I think our pal Zach’s is a 52 non-step-through? Standover would be tough, but still an interesting experiment to try the handling in a parking lot
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