Show me your Riv with Bullmoose bars

[Max S]

As everyone knows, having a stem or a handlebar in the workshop and not attached to a bike is a very dangerous situation. I find myself in a double hazard with a Bullmoose handlebar / quill stem in the shop, not attached to any bike. The one proven safety measure in such a situation is to build a bike around it. As everyone knows. 

So, inspire me with your awesomest Bullmoosey-ist builds! 

- Max "double trouble" in A2 

[larson....@gmail.com]

I will definitely recommend an Appaloosa bullmoose bar build!

Randy in WI

[Paul M]

Supreme comfort with the Choco-Moose handlebar. 

Paul in Eugene, Oregon

[Dorothy C]

My 2016 46cm Appa with Bullmoose and Ergon grips

[Drurad]

[Bill Lindsay]

I hope someday to be reunited with this one.  My former Bombadil:

https://flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/5236885742/in/album-72157623611013487/

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, cA

[Tommy Love]

[Kainalu V. -Brooklyn NY]

That’s a 200mm’er on your Bombadil, yes? That’s my dream-moose, only available with those Bombadils, I’ve heard. Good luck getting it back into the fold.

-Kai

[Bill Lindsay]

My Bullmoose was indeed a 200mm variant.

BL in EC

[vernon brooks]

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[Marty Gierke, Stewartstown PA]

Gone but not forgotten Quickbeam

And my current rig - the CLEM-H single speeder

[Marty Gierke, Stewartstown PA]

Oh yeah - and this one:

[Berkeleyan]

66cm QB that gets daily/weekly love all around Berkeley. The Harlequin wrap has held up great over the past decade, thanks to shellac.

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[Mackenzy Albright]

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Mackenzy,

What a useful looking mixte.  A few follow up questions for curious minds:  

Cable routing?  Is your rear brake cable wound up in your basketless basket net?  What is that mount your have strapped to your swoopy top tube?  I see two rings up front, are you finger shifting the front or just using the big ring on this?  

Thanks

Dustin in VA

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[ian m]

Also what are those brake levers??

[Mackenzy Albright]

Dustin - I had just hauled my hotdog air compressor to work with me and had it bungie netted on my portuer rack. It's just awkwardly hooked onto the handlebars over the cables. I have a double ring in front - but only use the 34 for my riding so I don't shift into a small ring almost ever so don't bother with a derailler. I am happy to tap it with my toe to shift down on the rare occasion. 

The mount on the swoop toob is a wzrd bikes cargo deck: https://www.wzrd.bike/justtryingtosurviveundercapitalism/p/cargo-decks 

Ian - It's an aliexpress lite speed levers. I snapped the bolt on this version and switched to a paul knockoff lite speed lever for now. It's very difficult to find (modern) V-brake levers that don't have bolts in annoying spots. Eventually I'd like real Pauls. Lite speeds have been *fine*. 

[maxcr]

Here's mine from last fall:

And you can always get a nifty Blue Lug bag for that open space:

And finally, not mine, but I had saved this beautiful bullmoose shot (I love those raw welds):

Max

[Tom Allingham]

One more, my build of one of the 8 Riv "Mystery" bikes that kick-started the looooong chain stay design:

https://flic.kr/p/dKqGWE

Tom Allingham

[Tom Allingham]

Two Bullmoose Bombadil builds -- the first was a temporary experiment with wooden rim wheels, the second a Rohloff-equipped black Stealth Bomber that I love.

https://flic.kr/p/m6WuDt

https://flic.kr/p/m5aAZx

https://flic.kr/p/tLmLz4

https://flic.kr/p/e45vFo

Enjoy!

[Tom Allingham]

Here's a kind of fancy Clementine I built for a charity auction:

https://flic.kr/p/MoQKDN

Tom Allingham

[Tom Allingham]

And here's what has to be the most unconventional build of the bunch -- a Clem with a Superpedestrian self-contained electric rear wheel -- which worked for less than a year.  Now repurposed as a conventional 7 speed derailleur bike.

https://flic.kr/p/22Rmed1

Tom A.

On Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 12:57:47 PM UTC-4 Berkeleyan wrote:

[Takashi]

Tom, it's been a long time since I saw your post last time!

I remember seeing that beautiful Clementine on Flickr, it was really gorgeous!

Here are a couple of pictures of my Hunqapillar, both from 2014.

Takashi

2024年6月23日日曜日 0:40:00 UTC+9 thomas.all...@gmail.com:

[Tom]

Max,

A while back I had a Bullmoose on my Clem H.  The Bullmoose, and a Jones Bar I had on a previous Clem, were definitely better than Albatross, etc. for light off-roading.  Rock solid & nice width.

On Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 9:42:58 PM UTC-4 Max S wrote:

[Bill Fulford]

Like a PBJ or a BLT, a perfect combination, GBW and a bullmoose.

[Max S]

These are great! 

My trials of this bar on a few different bikes suggest that the angle of the grip is best if it goes on a 71° or shallower head tube, and about level with the saddle, but I'm also always tempted to cut the ends a bit short... I'll include an image of one iteration from a few years ago... I somehow haven't found the right frame... 

Are folks finding it a good fit to run the bars above or below saddle?.. What's the head angle that works best?.. 

- Max "the bar that wags the bike" in A2

[Doug H.]

That nice Simple One reminded me that I had Chocomoose bars on mine. Here's a photo. That bike took a flight to England to a new owner a few years back.

Doug