Gus Susie Questions

[Charlie R]

I have one ordered and have begun my planning of parts.

Several questions:

What size is the seatpost?  I assume one does not come with a frame.

Bottom bracket - Does a frame come with a bottom bracket? 

I recall reading somewhere that Rivendell was going to offer two variations of bottom bracket crank combinations.  One would accommodate a single front crank and the other the usual double triple crankset.  

Anybody know if a single crank bottom bracket set will be offered?     

Charlie

[Joe Bernard]

You'll probably need to ask Riv about this stuff but most MIT frames use 26.8 posts and have come as a frameset with a post and square-taper 110 BB installed.

This is the new outboard BB crank Riv is working on.

[Alex Wirth- Owner, Yellow Haus Bicycles]

Been chatting with Riv a little lately about my Susie build.

Seatpost will be 26.8 although not included. The only thing this comes with is a headset (FSA duron likely)

BB for a Riv Silver double (square taper) is a whopping 127mm axle width....and a 73mm shell width. Supposedly the shimano un55 doesn’t come in 73x127 however a 68x127 and swap in an adjustable cup from a 73mm model you’re good to go. Sunlite makes a 73x127 and phil wood too, so far those are the options I’m finding...

[Garth]

For those that need a 73 x 127 ST BB the Tange LN-3922(steel cups) and LN-7922(Aluminum cups) are also available. 

Those widths are because of the relatively straight arms of the crank. It's gotta make for some cruddy chain angles in the middle ring/large cogs though. This is where the so called advance from 7 speed hubs to 8/9/10 went off that rails a bit as far I'm concerned as the smallest cog moved toward the centerline and the chaninrings moved further out. Anyone with a lick of intelligence can see that's ass-backwards. 

Then again  ... I find myself laughing at all of this ! For all the "progress/regress" in the world if you really detach yourself from the train-of-thoughts-link-ing .... the whole ch'bang is Eternity's game of Self-hide-and-Self-seek .... "Peek-boo-where-are-You ? ...... Peek-a-boo-now-I-see-You !" ..... to "play stupid/deaf/dumb/blind". Literally utterly dis-able yourself " for awhile" so you can "magically re-member" just how Infinitely cap-able you truly are... which is limitless .... boundless ....Infinity's Infinitely Infinite Self.   The Gem so sought "in a dream of separation" is no one but the One and Only Self ye all -ways Be.   

From Alice in Wonderland .... heeheehee ....   

“He's dreaming now,' said Tweedledee: 'and what do you think he's dreaming about?'

Alice said 'Nobody can guess that.'

'Why, about YOU!' Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. 'And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?'

'Where I am now, of course,' said Alice.

'Not you!' Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. 'You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!'

'If that there King was to wake,' added Tweedledum, 'you'd go out—bang!—just like a candle!”