Originally Posted by
Peterpan1
"gpatriv"
Gee, you read that stuff and one is just lifted and carried away by the hyperbole, I've been floating in a fog of rhetoric ever since.
One thing I love about the Riv site is the ability to check out the available old school parts. I know none of that stuff actually works any more (see the freewheel debate over the last few years), maybe the Y2K bug really did affect something, but it's nice to look.
Actually, I'd be surprised to receive any non-functioning product from them or any other bike parts retailer. If you ordered something from Nashbar that didn't work, you'd send it back, right? Why not Riv?
I'm going to ask here what you bought that didn't work. As a rule, they don't really sell components that have a history of needing a trip to the LBS to repair once they wear out. They're not really into the latest indexed, 10 or 11-cog forged unobtanium componentry, so I call BS on your contention that nothing they sell works. It may not work with the newfangled 1 1/8" threadless setups and clearance-lacking frames currently ruling the sales legders, but it works fine with the 1" threaded, standard-reach, sensibly-built frames they sell, as well as frames of the same description that you can find all over eBay.