Yesterday I discussed I had a brand new bike coming, and late within the day it lastly confirmed up:
It’s a Rivendell Roaduno full, within the mustard coloration (round right here we are saying COLOR, not “COLORWAY,” goddamn it!), ant it arrived not a second to quickly, as a result of a one-speed bike with a lugged metal body was precisely what I wanted to floor myself after all of the Y-Foolery by which I’ve been partaking recently:
The Roaduno is mainly the Anti-Foil, proper all the way down to the colour; each are mainly yellow, however one yellow is meant to appear to be gold, and the opposite’s speculated to appear to be a condiment.
So excited was I to lastly obtain the Roaduno that I intercepted the UPS man on the nook and carried the field all the way in which down the road to my chateau, whereupon I dragged it into the basement and put it collectively in nice haste so I might be the primary particular person on the Web to point out one off–and to that finish I’ll now bore you with just about the identical photographs you’ll be able to see on the Rivendell web site, solely taken by an fool in a darkish basement with an affordable smartphone:
That is precisely how the whole Roaduno arrives within the field, besides I added saddle, grips, and pedals because it doesn’t include these issues. The saddle and the grips had been merely the primary ones I used to be capable of seize from my dangerously cluttered storage cage with out inflicting an avalanche, so don’t ascribe any particular significance to them, and the pedals are the Grip Monarch within the Panda colorationapproach:
Aside from the colour they’re the identical pedals I’ve on the Homer, they usually’ve been nice.
In any other case, the bike comes with a Nitto cockpit, together with a four-bolt open-face stem:
Inexperienced-and-silver IRD brake levers for a little bit singlespeed aptitude:
The brand new Silver3 crank, which is a bit more sculpted than the unique:
These gravel tires which might be so scorching with the children proper now:
And massive-ass calipers that match round them with room to spare:
Rear spacing is 120mm, presumably to commit you to singledom…
…and but there’s a derailleur hanger:
You may additionally have seen the bike comes with a further chainring on the crank, and there’s even a shifter boss on the non-drive aspect:
It’s because the concept is you’ll be able to add a entrance derailleur and a series tensioner and set it up as a frontal dinglespeed and even tringlepace, which is a phrase I simply made up:
[Photo: Rivendell]
There are some singlespeeders who’re offended by provisions for gears as they spoil the bike’s “clear traces” or no matter (the phrase “clear traces” is sort of as annoying because the time period “colorway”), however so far as I’m involved it’s at all times good to have choices, and the rear spacing ensures the bike will at all times stay rudimentary and subsequently true to the spirit of simplicity and/or inconvenience, which is what singlespeeding is all about. (Plus, if you happen to like singlespeeds you in all probability additionally like tinkering, and this bike begs to be tinkered with.) Anyway, even if you happen to by no means use the shifter boss, it looks like an excellent place for a bell.
And naturally being a Rivendell the body will take racks, and fenders, and a body pump, and a kickstand, and it additionally has elegant decals:
And a spiffy head badge:
I’d have favored nothing greater than to scamper off on the bike indefinitely, however with night time falling and home duties beckoning I used to be solely capable of take it across the neighborhood for a fast take a look at trip:
First impressions had been extremely encouraging:
I’ll trip it inventory to begin with then let the tinkering muse take me the place it’ll, and I’ll preserve you posted whether or not you prefer it or not.