Post a Comment. Happy New Year to all! I feel like my bike flipping has been slowing down, but I expect writing this post may disabuse me of that notion.
I had another brief fling with a Rivendell this summer. Occasionally my positive bike budget will intersect with a bike I've been thinking about now becoming available, and that happened this past June. Time for a road trip, then. Of course, I immediately had a volunteer to accompany me, and that was honestly a good sized chunk of my motivation in this endeavor.
The bike test ride left me a bit ambivalent, but after a three hour drive, it was hard to walk away. So I didn't:. I had googled pizza buffets beforehand, so we stopped at a local spot for lunch before hitting the road for home:.
Lunch was also a bit underwhelming, but we had a pleasant drive back, listening to our audio books and snacking on junk food. What I ended up with is basically a bone stock Clem Smith Jr, 59cm, high bar model:. I quickly made some changes. My first ride was cut short due to some pain and discomfort in my legs. The saddle was simply too wide for my narrow hips. I replaced it with something from my stash. Good bye and good riddance:.
The initial handlebar position was also too high for me. This is a bit unusual, as I'm typically trying to get my bars higher with various threadless gimmicks. But the four inch rise of the Boscos caused me to slam the stem as low as I could, an easy operation with the threaded headset. Ah yes, the Bosco bars. In a way, the Clem is built around these bars.
