[quote=spaghetti]tbh there are few things i love more than a beat to shit rivendell
there used to be an old fixed gear atlantis with a heavy front rack and mustache bars around logan square
it looked like it had been to hell and back a few times
love[d] that bike
but i’m also the guy who had a stem shifter on my philippe
so don’t listen to me[/quote]
I spotted a beat-to-shit Quickbeam in Portland with a similar setup. It ruled
I would love this job… or at least to do a cobranded bike.
My vision for another bike would make a great Rodeo for the current century.
Seems like Crust is in a great position to grab some of that market that Riv isn’t taking. The Romanceur (and to an extent the Lightning Bolt) capture the riv aesthetic quite well but adds dick brakes.
their bikes have had sloping TTs for a long time
they just go up even further at the HT instead of going down at the ST
and their newer Clem/etc bikes use a 29.8 OS seatpost (I think mostly because they made that lug for the tandem that got released later)
So much weird shit with Riv. Didn’t you drop by and have a meating of the minds with Grant a few years back, fred?
[quote=iwillbe]
The Soma San Marcos seems pointless, they should have just pushed the Fog Cutter harder as a decent sport touring bike.[/quote]
The San Marcos preceded the Fog Cutter by quite a bit, like 5 years or something.
[quote=Sneaky Viking][quote=iwillbe]
The Soma San Marcos seems pointless, they should have just pushed the Fog Cutter harder as a decent sport touring bike.[/quote]
The San Marcos preceded the Fog Cutter by quite a bit, like 5 years or something.[/quote]
Crust has been getting away with quill stems somehow. But there’s definitely room for both brands, as they have completely different vibes (and I would assume customer base).
[quote=Ramblin’ Grant]We have a longtime kind of customer who doesn’t read this Blagh, so it’s OK to tell, and I’m not naming anybody. The point is the story, and the BLAGH has low posting standards. It’s 80 percent catharsis, 20 percent plea, all total honest, and anyway:
He comes by a lot always on a bike (good for him!), one of about 20 bikes he has, each with a story about how he got it at a fire sale for a song. We’ve chatted with him for more than 40 hours, and he bought one $21 item from us, which he returned, saying it didn’t work. It worked perfectly. I know he feels like he’s one of the team, and in a way he is, but go to Rivelo and don’t be that guy.[/quote]
I mean, really, fuck that guy though. Worst customers are the ones who are stealing your time. Game store regulars who borrow the books and put them back on the shelf when they’re done. People who buy everything online for a discount and then squawk when you charge them shop time to put it together. Folks who want a warranty for something they bought on ebay.
I would almost certainly immediately terminate any social media manager who called out a specific customer like that. Sorry, but customers owe us nothing. Earn their business. Don’t like customers? Don’t work in retail.
Customers owe nothing, but neither does the business 
Sometimes you need to fire a customer.
Edited: however, posting that on the internet is d-u-m-b and he should fire himself from writing copy without an editor.
Shit, for me Grant set the yolobike path - he had Henry Kingman’s solo PBP bike at the Riv booth at Interbike in 99 or 00. Big ass Schmidt hub, fatty Conti touring tires, rando bag. I think I’ve been chasing that bike ever since.
The entire gravel/endurance road segment owes a little something to Grant. From Domanes to RLTs. This goof literally laid the ground work with his ideas and is too dense to even say “look what I did!”
It’s sad that Panaracer has finally had to roll out the Gravel King because none of the Riv rubbers are tubeless.
It’s sad that the two biggest innovations that improved the experience for the yolo rider (tubeless and disc) are two that he’s committed to resisting. The only saving grace for rivnuts that want to embrace tubeless is that Surly still makes enough LHTs that there is a market for the Alex Adventure 2.
Shit, the Coffee Grinder is exactly what the Roadini would be if he extracted his noggin from his poop chute.
We need a photochop of that batman slapping robin meme with Grant’s face getting slapped and some jibber jabber about embracing disc brakes and tubeless.
Think about the alternate universe where Grant comes out with the Rat Trap Pass first, but in this case he first gets hooked on tubeless for goathead thorns, then gets Panaracer to dig out the old Ritchey MoabBite molds and put a tubeless bead on them.
“It’s like floating on air! And you never have to patch a tube!”
[quote=drwelby]Think about the alternate universe where Grant comes out with the Rat Trap Pass first, but in this case he first gets hooked on tubeless for goathead thorns, then gets Panaracer to dig out the old Ritchey MoabBite molds and put a tubeless bead on them.
“It’s like floating on air! And you never have to patch a tube!”[/quote]
That’s some Tina Belcher erotic friend fiction right there…
Oh shit.
“Everything is subject to change
Contact us for warranty information”
That would be so much better if it didn’t come complete with a build kit that no one wants.
Or maybe everyone wants it, and that’s the problem.
everything everyone was asking for, years too late.
But they might sell a bunch of these at that price, even with the barcon and shitty calipers