Please tell me that’s a new model they will sell so Grant and crew can come beg us for money again in a year and a half when no one buys them.
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Here’s our new HILL bike. Don’t try too hard to read the model name, because it’s lower down. This is one of four samples. There will be about 9 changes, but this is the overall bike. Imagine it with a prettier crank, derailer, and shifters. Not a fan of this look. There are nice-looking ways to do the same.
https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/peeking-through-the-knothole/all-about-ebikes
He’s not wrong about the current Shimano aesthetic.
Does that bike require more than one chain?
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We keep referring to the new rivendell couch as a bike. Let’s stop. That’s a sweet Bay area dirt couch.
The one word that immediately comes to mind is, “irresponsible.”
What a let down. So much build up for a big tire mtn bike and that’s what they come up with. How can he be so obtuse? Is it deliberate?
This is an actual company with professional bike people at it, right? Not just some grown up fixie kids?
Riv is either the true home for the “get off my lawn” generation or a cautionary tale of what happens when the sycophants drive everybody else away. Grant has his own idea of what bicycling should be, and thank goodness he draws everyone like him into his bicycle cult.
Rivs are going to be great when gasoline becomes prohibitively expensive and people actually have to ride bikes
Maybe. I imagine it will be more like Amsterdam on steroids; it will be a infinitely tall heap of omafietsen stacked up at every railroad station, bar, and office building.
I saw this and imagined how pissed off i’d be if I had to look at this on a daily basis
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I imagined how fast I’d run if I went into a shop and an employee had that on their bike.
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To be fair, no where near as bad as this
EDIT: this is not worse. This guy is just trying to get to work. But still, #copycat
(Spotted in my hood)
I think the goal is to remake the previous model/s, but do it worse.
No, they are too expensive for anything like that
As someone who had no interested in the new MTB and though that their interpretation of it was going to be stupid, I am even more disappointed than i thought
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“For rocky trails when the rocks are unavoidable, ride 2.8-inch tires at 25 psi.”
I hope that’s 25 psi for both tires combined.
If you didn’t notice, it’s on 25mm wide Cliffhangers, so you probably have to run them that high to keep them from flopping over in turns.
Are there any rim-brake rims in the 35-40mm class? Only wide one I can think of is the OG Surly Large Marge from ~2005, which was too wide for these tires (65mm), and also only 26" rather than 27.5".
I missed that. Slapping faux lug stickers on a Surly makes more sense than this bike (IM-AT-MO).