Originally Posted by
nlerner
2nd ride on the newest project: it’s growing on me!
I LOVE the color scheme!
Originally Posted by
bironi
Those track dropouts are not friendly in the rain season here.
Still looks like a fun bike.
Enjoy!
Track ends ARE kind of a drag on a fender-equipped road bike - though I have managed them for more than 20 years now on my Mercian. The biggest gripe I have with them, especially when they are truly horizontal, is that they limit the number of gear teeth one can run without having to readjust the brake pads.
Originally Posted by
nlerner
This will get fenders for wet-weather rides (fwiw, the average annual rainfall in Boston is higher than both Portland and Seattle). My current single speed maxes out at 30mm tires with no room for fenders, and the 44mm tires on the Rivendell have oodles of room. It’s also likely to get a 2 x 1 drivetrain: 44/28t crankset and 18t single speed freewheel. It has both track ends and a RD hanger. Yeah, a bit odd. Thanks!
Lemme throw in a plug for White Industries Dos Eno freewheels here - I would be tempted to run 34/48 by a 20/22T freewheel ... but that may just be me being crazy ...
It IS a lovely bike. I had its ancestor, a c.2004 Quickbeam, but in the end I just liked my Mercian better.
The Quickbeam