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Not sure why they ever stopped making the Rivendell Rambouillet.
There is still a market for that somewhat traditional frame/bike especially if you look at all the other companies who still make it: Surly, All-City, Black Mountain Cycles, etc. |
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Rivendell has come out with its own tig-welded frameset called a Rodini or something like that. The Roadeo is a "lighter" lugged steel frameset that I think replaced the Rambo. Whatever, Riv has gotten away from what it was and I too am another who stopped following what they offered once their focus was on axes and double top tube framesets. Good Luck! |
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Grant is hopelessly out of touch. Rivendell should have been the OG hipster brand. With gravel bikes the market has moved to the general area that Grant always promoted but he totally missed out. Being completely out of ideas--at least ideas that anyone would actually buy--he could have just copied Surly and used something other than gaspipe. Instead his bikes veered off into bizarro world. |
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course the custom Rivendell! I'm always amazed that Grant never tries to show his "road" bikes with more modern parts. Yes, I know he's not into e-shifting like di2, but he could show his bikes fitted with DA/Ultegra/105 mechanical? Hope they can figure it out! Good Luck! |
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I don't know, the Rambouillet had much more traditional or sensible geometry than the long chainstay/tall headtube for long chainstay/tall headtube's sake that all of their current bikes seem to have. Their lack of middle of the road/all-around offerings has always been a huge turnoff for me.
Like, I would ride the hell out of this bike. If it had Shimano or SRAM. This Blériot also looks way more sensible than most of their current stuff. Regardless, begging for handouts every few months while continuing the same very specific and esoteric offerings isn't a good look. Last edited by jtbadge; 12-30-2018 at 12:27 AM. |
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I was wrong, Riv does advertise a bike with modern parts - looks like Sram Force:
Riv advertises it as their "fastest" bike too! In contrast, the Roadini, a tig-welded frameset doesn't seem to work, even as a 1x! Good Luck! Last edited by bfd; 12-30-2018 at 12:44 AM. |
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Sure, but a sold out $2600 frameset. Also Force 10 is almost ten years old at this point.
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I am not pro or anti Riv, but you're also the customer Bob Jackson refused to sell to. Riv's comment is shades of that. It isn't exactly a one-off thing. Sorry, I don't mean to pull skeletons out, but there's some context to your comment from Riv's side that we aren't seeing.
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Black Mountain Cycles, Surly, and Soma stole the Riv thunder...think about how many people bought Surlys after reading Grant's writing on steel frames, they definitely got his message. But people who had the extra dollars at his price points could almost get a frame from a framebuilder instead of his Rivendells.
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I think the iconic musa frame sets that allowed riv to find a foothold in this market simply became too expensive to be profitable. Likely the horizon from order to delivery also extended too far for most folks. Frame sets like the musa Atlantis, ram, roadeo, hunq among others were lost. A bloody shame. They should be investing in mit frames like the iconic set above rather than the profoundly quirky ones currently offered. I like grant. He is very good for the sport of cycling, the industry, and for us. I hope that someone grabs his hand and pulls him to the light. Btw, that silver ram above is sublime.
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You’re keeping us together, and we thank you for that and will never, ever axe again. — G
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I've heard the Guy on a Buffalo is a regular pine-tar soap and axe customer...but they'll only sell to him if he buys in bulk. Pine-tar soap and axe's as a business focus for hipster lumberjacks won't likely take you too far...which will lead to, well, you already know. William |
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Grant cried that no one wants to wait and or pay for a custom, though those are still available. Moved a lot of the models to MIT but added long stays and made them less traditional looking to fit a wider range of riders per each size.
Most of the models are for upright, pull back bars. They’re the equivalent of surly with overlap of models except not a single disc in sight |
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Bob Jackson has sold me everything I’ve wanted and the only thing they didn’t want to do is build me a custom bike because they don’t do custom frames anymore. |
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