Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nope, Rivendell now only does custom frames. As we speak, I am in the queue for a frame, to be delivered sometime in 2001 or 2002. I have short legs for my height, and the frame will have a long top tube. Rivendell is like Leica in the way that deliveries are always late! On Tue, 31 October 2000, John Collier wrote: > Wonderful bikes and I am glad that they stuck around and morphed after > Bridgestone pulled out. I hope they survive their current financial crisis. > Unfortunately they have only stock sizes and I am a long bodied person with > short legs and arms. After twenty years of stock bikes that have to be > adapted, I am looking forward to one that fits. I also like a high saddle > height, relative to the handlebars, that a smaller frame gives, which > Rivendell preaches and designs against (rightly so for most riders but not > for misshapen and weak backed me). With my long back and predilection for a > large saddle/handlebar height difference, I need a small frame with a long > top tube. I have been making do with long stems (135mm on my track bike) and > my knees knocking on my elbows, but, it just does not handle and fit as well > as a properly designed frame. > > Cheers, > > John Collier > > > From: "Ken Iisaka" <ken@iisaka.org> > > > > The Leica M of bicycles is Rivendell. Lugged, silver-brazed beauties.