Commented on the ig post about the virtues of disc brakes, was told by some boomer fan that it’s unnecessary complication and the strength of a riv is that I can rebuild the hubs with “whale blubber or peanut butter” and that I can find brake pads in a third world country
Like, I’m not doing any of that ever so maybe that’s why I don’t understand current rivs
Was he going to bring his bike to a third world country? I thought boomers only did ecotourism in Costa Rica or safari in whatever African nation is currently most stable.
peanut butter lubed hubs attract all the best wildlife on safari 
just went to that thread to give riv a piece of my mind but then almost had an aneurism reading the comments so gonna back off and let riv be riv till they are no more
No no no you need a Toyota but want a VW.
FFS, the frame shop probably asked “do you want a boss on the bridge” and Grant said “sure, why not”.
I mean, they make two kinds of artis-anal mudflaps, I think they understand fenders.
I get that tarck is about mockery and comedy as much as anything else, but why the need to go to Rivendell’s social media pages and “give them a piece of my mind”?
Are you not familiar with our corporate manifesto?
you’re bike sucks and we have a team of experts to prove it
I’d say the combined level of industry experience here is formidable.
Plus my timely and trenchant observations based on misremembered Velo News ad copy from 2002!
Don’t give up the secret ingredient!
I’m mostly joking. The photo is genuinely amusing to me, as it is proof that disc brakes are not a “marketing gimmick” even on a Rivendell bike
This is tarck
We are about many things, most of them good
One of those things is making fun of people on the internet
Whether or not that is one of the good things or not I leave up to you to choose
Grant may as well lean in and start telling the old folx how to lace two Weinman Zac19 rims together for that big old tire.
‘this way if you break a rim out in the wilderness, you have a backup.’
Let’s not forget how easy it is to source 27.5+ tubes in Tanzania and Kashmir these days.
i love the ingenuity of old fat wheels
I’d also have to chuckle at the idea that a Rivendell is ever, ever ridden more than ten miles from the owner’s house or, if traveling, car. In neither case would it be any kind of a challenge to just call Lyft and take a ride home when your bike breaks.
Alee from Cycling About has had some good thoughts about what field repairability really means.
oh come the fuck on, this is getting tired