it’s called the san marcos. they had it up on the bike page not too long ago. You plan on getting one?
I think this frame looks nice, but I personally am not interested. One thing I dislike about Riv is that they are sort of arrogant about their fitting ideas. Which is, “slam your Brooks back, and raise your stem to the max height and it’s perfect”, which is why they do the whole sloping toptube thing…to get the bars higher without looking as ridiculous. That’s fine, if that’s what you want. I personally don’t want that or see the need, but I understand that there is a demand for that type of thing.
I just hope this frame project finally makes 1" threaded steel ROAD forks available. There is basically nothing out there right now to satisfy that market.
The sloping top tube is really just compact geo… more people/less sizes.
in my experience their bikes handle a lot better with the cockpit rotated back. i think it goes beyond fit and into philosophy. most riv owners are 45+ as well.
thinkin’ about it?
if I get a part time bike shop job.
I mean I should use the discount on something cool, right?
GP’s verbose, tedious ramblings sort of (a lot) bug the shit out of me, and seems like he’s more into peddling a lifestyle around the idea of bikes than actually riding bikes. From what I can tell, GP (or whatever pompous ass writes the logorrheic copy for their website) is a witches brew of Polonius, J. Peterman, and Ralph Lauren.
Never put much weight in a salesman who hocks his wares by talking bad about the competition.
thinkin’ about it?
if I get a part time bike shop job.
I mean I should use the discount on something cool, right?[/quote]
definitely, i would. i’d drop one of them an email to see how it’s coming along.
sloping tts and threadless headsets iz betta
I’ve heard he actually stopped riding bikes alltogether a year or so ago and was infatuated with a big kickbike scooter that he’d put JA brooks / twine / shellac all over.
In the comments here he drops that he’s planning a $720 frameset that’s primered only for you to rattlecan: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2772-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-rivendell
I’ve read him say that he’s feeling the pinch of Surly basically taking a Rivendell, TIG-welding it, and selling it for $400 everywhere in the world, so I think that frame in question is his answer to that.
[quote=Sneaky Viking][quote=cookietruck]the page is right here.
http://www.rivbike.com/products/show/roadeo/50-618
ain’t gonna lie tho.
if you gonna spend 2k on a roadeo you might as well drop the extra bill and get a custom davidson with a king headset installed…[/quote]
bro, the soma x rivbike collabo. not the rodeo.[/quote]
oh shi…
was drunk
In that article gp also says that the soma bike will be out in a few months.
I enjoy GP’s moderately insane ramblings on all things bike - I appreciate his passion even if I don’t agree with his ideas most of the time. The nutso rambling about diet and fitness is a bit hard to take sometimes. Has anyone ever looked into the “Paleo Diet” that he’s been pimping for months now? It seems like it’s some dumb pseudo-science Atkin’s-esque low carb high protein ketosis bullshit, but with a ridiculous anthropological hook to it…
Been doing the Paleo thing for a few weeks now. It’s NOT low carb and it’s nothing like Atkins.
The basic overview is no processed foods, no grains, no legumes, no dairy, no refined sugars… lots of meat, nuts, vegetables, fruits, eggs. People go back and forth on oats.
Supposedly helps your body get to a stable weight by cutting out stuff it’s not really designed to deal with. A few weeks in I dropped 10lbs of bullshit and I’m feeling stronger on the bike.
The wife has been wanting to do it for a while and we have been slowly going that direction in the last year anyway so we made the switch. Picked up the Paleo Diet For Athletes that Cordain coauthored with Joe Friel. Good reading and has given me a really different perspective how I eat as well as some really cool ideas for snacking (espresso soaked figs!).
the diet is legit.
Huh. So it’s not a ketosis diet? Live and learn… although I’m a little wary of taking one’s diet from a period in which people lived to be 40 tops.
First chapter debunks that.
Low average lifespan was by and large a product of environmental issues not diet. Average life span has gone up because of modern medicine, less competition for food, less issue with predators, lessened effects of drought/floods/tsunami/whatever. NOT because we eat bread all the damn time.
The ones who beat the odds and lived longer don’t show signs of the modern illnesses that are brought on by high blood pressure / cholesterol.
Interesting. I will have to check that book out, it seems- although I would think the problem would be the huge amounts of sodium, sugar and fat that goes into processed food, not carbohydrates as a class. Does it have any mention of how Asia has had a superior lifespan to Europe despite a high-carb, very low protein/fat diet? Should I just RTFB and STFU?
You just illustrated 2nd most common misconception about paleo diet. Carbs and grains are not interchangeable terms.
Paleo diet is NOT low carb. It’s just much more selective in WHERE the carbs come from. For example: the sweet potato. A damn near perfect source of carbs.
Honestly I don’t know about the whole Asia thing but I suspect our western ideal of what the longest living Asians are eating is probably incorrect. They say now that 1/3 of young men in China are at high risk of dying of illness related to blood pressure, and other dietary/lifestyle factors. I hear Asians eat lots of fish and all of those omega 3s probably help.
As I understand it wheat in particular is one of the problems and I always though that Asian diets have only really started to bulk up on the wheat in fairly recent history. Could be wrong on that though.