New-Bombadil-Day!

[Tony DeFilippo]

Pardon the poor image quality... I met up with Tom at about 4:30 today to pick up my new blue 56 Bombadil. It was a real pleasure meeting you Tom, thanks for the fantastic bike!

While the bike came with a sweet Bullmoose cockpit I have a ~80 mile ride planned for Veterans Day and I didn't think I could hack the upright cockpit for that long of a day so I went into a crash build tonight with parts from all over the garage... good thing my Saluki is still down for the count as many of her parts were pressed into service.  And yes as you'll see the Co-Op Nitto Handle Works Forged stem did make the initial build! :)  Build highlights;

56 Bombadil - taller and bigger than I had expected... very close dimensions to my 60 Saluki

48cm Noodle handlebars w/ Nitto forged stem

Bruce Gordon Canti's (super sweet, thanks Tom!)

Sugino Triple off my Saluki

Velocity 32H 650B wheelset off my Saluki

Vee Rubber 650Bx1.95 Tires

VO Orange brake cable housing

Silver Shifter (rear/right only)

No FD, stick shift for now

Nitto R-14 rear rack / Nitto saddlebag QR & Carradice longflap

I think that's about it, I'll be commuting in tomorrow morning thanks to the successful build tonight... Can't wait!

Tony

[hsmitham]

Very Sweet Tony. Enjoy.

~Hugh

Los Angeles, CA

[WETH]

Tony,

That looks great!  Enjoy the ride in this morning.  The full moon was hanging just above the trees as I left my house on my bike at 6 this morning.  A glorious morning to bike commute and on a New-Bombadil, too, enjoy!

I look forward to seeing the bike in person.

Erl 

[Pondero]

Excellent!  Happy for you, Tony. It looks great and I hope you have a special Veteran's Day bonding experience.

[Tony DeFilippo]

Thanks guys!  Glorious first morning ride on the Bombadil... I left the house about the same time as Erl headed for Old Town Alexandria where I met up with my friend Wes for coffee (inside coffee - Misha's).  After a pleasant 20 min of coffee and conversation we headed into the city.  My first random impressions of the bike/build;

 

-Decent tires are a revelatoin after 2 months of some hard, cheap 26" rubber I've been running on the XO-3.

-Riding geared after 2 months of single speed makes me feel fast (even though I'm not)

-I miss my interrupter levers on the noodle bars

-The bike frame fits nicely, disappears under me and deinitely gives a 'confident' ride

-My sweet new Nitto stem is to long for noodles... :(  so it will get demo'd with albatross bars soon

 

-Clear, crisp Nov mornings are hard to beat on any bike. The Potomac was a gorgeous azure-blue (not unlike my new Bombadil!), the horizon was super crisp... the light in general was really nice.

 

Couple tweaks before the Veterans Day ride but I'm thrilled to be back on a Riv!

 

Tony

 

[Allingham II, Thomas J]

Always a pleasure to meet up with folks I’ve been corresponding with on this list, and the beer with Tony was a plus!  That build looks great, Tony, and much more practical than my silly interim single speed build on that frame.

 

Congratulations, and thanks for an entirely pleasant transaction.

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[Deacon Patrick]

Looking good! A sharp start to what will hopefully be a long and prosperous friendship!

With abandon,

Patrick

[Tony DeFilippo]

Tom - I couldn't agree more.  An excellent transaction all around!  And I wouldn't call your SS build 'silly', it was a very stylish and unique look and I may very well revisit it at some point.  I took a spin around the block with those bullmoose bars last night mid-build, they are unlike anything I've ridden before.  I definitely want to give it a decent try especially offroad sometime soon.

 

Thanks Patrick - I certainly hope so. I've had a lot of churn on the bike stable over the past 2 years which hasn't gone unnoticed by my lovely Wife.  I think the Saluki-Bombadil duo does a nice job of satisfying both practicality and vanity... and of course there's no good reason to divest myself of the XO-3 or Bob Jackson (project) either... :)

 

 

[Bill Lindsay]

I really wanted to buy it.  I'm really glad you did, and it stayed "in the family".  

[Tom Harrop]

Nice bike! There's something really enjoyable about riding a fat-tyred Bombadil with drop bars.

[Bill]

Ah, you finally get to experience some double-top-tube goodness. And if you eliminated the XO-3 you'd have more time and space to get the Saluki back on the road, i.e., N-1.

[DS]

Nice! Is this taking over the Atlantis as your new trail bike? If you need to break it in I'll be at Joaquin Miller park in Oakland tomorrow morning for a short ride.

On Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:42:16 PM UTC-8, Tony DeFilippo wrote:

[Tony DeFilippo]

The ride home was as enjoyable as the ride in...  the stem is definitely getting replaced w/ a shorter one, maybe tonight.  And I'll get the FD/shifter installed as well.

Bill - So considerate to look out for me like that! :)  You definitely have first crack if I ever part w/ the big XO-3!

Dave - I think you have me confused w/ another poster, I did own a 64 Atlantis last year but it was way to big for me and I sold it to a listmember on the west coast.  I live in the Washington DC area but I appreciate the offer!

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[David Stein]

Oh right, another Tony, sorry! Well nice ride either way!

[Chris Lampe 2]

I've been riding a 1983 MTB with 55mm Big Apples and really enjoying it.  A lot.   It makes me have a much greater appreciation for the Bombadil.  I've been curious about 650B wheels for some time and right now, a Bombadil just checks all the right boxes for me.