Now here's a Rivendell...

[rob markwardt]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7104/7298584094_964f7a1212_b.jpg

not mine...wish it was.

[Mike]

Is that a Mavic "Starfish" crank on it? Looks to be a mid to late 90s
Riv. Possibly a Long and Low?

--mike

[Zack]

beausage-iful.

[SISDDWG]

They should all look like that! Beautiful.

On May 29, 9:40 pm, rob markwardt <robmar...@hotmail.com> wrote:

[William]

...and he forgot to get his cable lock around the frame.  That's a little risky.

I'm also a fan of the dark headtube aesthetic. 

[TSW]

Probably doing the "lock the wheel in the rear triangle trick."  If I had space in my lock, I'd def. incl. the frame.

What's with the clamp on the seat post?  and the dowel under the saddle?

[Tim McNamara]

Looks like an early Road not a Long-Low. The LL had cantis and the geometry looks steeper on this one, but camera angles can be very deceiving (Jan Heine wrote up a good demonstration of this).

It's also got pretty classic mid-90s components straight out of the Riv catalog ca 1995- Simplex rear derailleur, Mavic starfish crank, Nitto stem, M-bars, Carradice (Camper, probably). The black (?) head tube is unique, I have not seen that combination before.

I like seeing a high quality bike treated like a bike and not like a museum piece.

[Mike]

On May 30, 8:09 am, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote:

> I like seeing a high quality bike treated like a bike and not like a museum piece.

Agreed.

[Zack]

it looks like the same paint combo as the bike which was stolen and then listed on ebay had.  I think it's like a blue/green headtube.  I vastly prefer the cream tubes myself!

[Cyclofiend]

On May 30, 2012, at 7:21 AM, William wrote:

> ...and he forgot to get his cable lock around the frame. That's a
> little risky.
>

Yea, I was going to say - "I could have that bike in 5 hacksaw strokes."

[Cyclofiend]

On May 30, 2012, at 5:58 AM, Mike wrote:

> Is that a Mavic "Starfish" crank on it? Looks to be a mid to late 90s
> Riv. Possibly a Long and Low?
>

No "and" in LongLow... ;^)

Here's a stellar example of one, for comparison:

http://cyclofiend.com/cc/2010/cc822-dongenovese1110.html

[frank_a]

Which now resides in So. Fla. ;