Betty Foy info request

[Ann Wombat]

Can anyone tell me what years the Betty Foy was produced? I think 2009 was the first year?

Also, were they all made in Taiwan?

Thanks! Ann

[David Person]

Doing a search on this site shows the first threads on the Betty Foy at the end of 2008 with pictures on the Riv website mentioned in Dec 2008 along with mentions of test rides.  Yes, all Taiwan made.  Timing looks to be same as the Sam Hillborne.

https://groups.google.com/g/rbw-owners-bunch/c/bQZkKv_yoUI/m/B9QC-TmhQSoJ

[Bill Lindsay]

What's the context?  

A. Are you considering buying one?  Can you share the link to a listing?

B. Or do you have one and need to sell it?  Can you share a picture or size info so we can help you date it?

C. Or do you have one and want to gather info about it?  Share a picture and/or size info and we can probably help with that too

D. Or do you really needs a comprehensive manufacturing record for all batches of Betty Foy (and Yves Gomez?).  Or not manufacture, but sales records for all moments in time where Rivendell Bicycle Works had them available for purchase.  Or something even more comprehensive like the marketing run up for the first batch of Betty's through to the marketing announcement of the next version of step through, the Cheviut.

We can probably help piece the story together for any of the above, although D would probably need the most direct help from Rivendell.  

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 10:23:41 AM UTC-7 womba...@gmail.com wrote:

[Pam Bikes]

Betty's were made in different sizes in different years.  And in the later years some were Yves Gomez and some were Cheviot.  What other questions do you have?

[Eric Daume]

The YG was a Betty with as manlier name, but the Cheviot was a completely different model… one of the first long chainstay Rivs. 

Eric

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[Johnny Alien]

I kind of forgot about the Yves Gomez. I remembered the Glorius and Wilbury but not the YG. Did it not last very long?

On Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 5:33:56 AM UTC-4 Eric Daume wrote:

The YG was a Betty with as manlier name, but the Cheviot was a completely different model… one of the first long chainstay Rivs. 

Eric

On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, Pam Bikes <pamlike...@gmail.com> wrote:

Betty's were made in different sizes in different years.  And in the later years some were Yves Gomez and some were Cheviot.  What other questions do you have?

On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 1:23:41 PM UTC-4 womba...@gmail.com wrote:

Can anyone tell me what years the Betty Foy was produced? I think 2009 was the first year?

Also, were they all made in Taiwan?

Thanks! Ann

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[Allan McLane]

My Yvez Gomez, a 58cm, bears s/n M1011031 and here are some excerpts from several exchanges with Vince:

“We don't have a database of serial numbers... . Most likely, the frame was made between 2009 and 2012. The Betty Foy became the Cheviot around 2013. ...  What I can tell you is a little background on the Yves Gomez. An Yves Gomez is actually a Betty Foy frame that has been re-painted and decaled. We were worried that some guys might find the Betty Foy decal a little too "girly." So, we came up with a new head badge and decals. Someone would order a Betty and pay for the paint to be stripped and re-painted with the Yves Gomez decals. I'm not sure what the grey would be called because it's a one-off paint job.”

Allan McLane, yesterday on the footbridge over 

Lobster Cove in Annisquam (Gloucester), Mass

On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 1:23:41 PM UTC-4 womba...@gmail.com wrote:

[Kiley Demond]

There is one on eBay for $2499. It has been listed for months so discerning buyers get that it is wildly overpriced, albeit beautiful.

I wanted one after reading the blog article from an Irish lass whose name I can't recall. By the time I got to Riv (I lived in the west bay on the peninsula so it was only a 2-hour drive 😉), it was a Cheviot and I ordered an orange one, greatly relieved that I wouldn't have to pick the BF green. I nearly bought the orange Clem but fell hard for the lugs on which the BF hooked me. Now, I'm looking for an orange Clem or will wait for the new Hilli-bikes.

Kiley