A Long Low In The Wild

[Stephen Fredette]

The topic of the Long Low having been raised, here is mine, from 2000, built by Curt Goodrich. A wonderful bike and always a work in progress. 

Stephen Fredette

[Patrick Moore]

Lovely! Perfect fender line, too.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:22 AM Stephen Fredette <sfrede...@gmail.com> wrote:

The topic of the Long Low having been raised, here is mine, from 2000, built by Curt Goodrich. A wonderful bike and always a work in progress. 

Stephen Fredette

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Patrick Moore

Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum

[Ash]

Haven't seen that lighting arrangement before!  I tip my hat every time I see someone actually use a 53t chainring!   I won't be able to make any of my bikes move when the chain on such a massive chainring and the smallest cog, unless I standup the whole time :)

[Stephen Fredette]

It's a 50. When I was putting the bike together 40 something outer chainrings hadn't quite made an impact and I thought I was being clever by putting a "small" 50 tooth outer on. 

Stephen Fredette

[Eamon Nordquist]

Is that little rack the Dia Compe one? I have a bike with the e? I have a bike with the Dia Compe 610 brakes and thought about it as a headlight mount and a place to stow a raincoat or something, but I worry about stressing the brake bolt.

Eamon
Seattle

[John Hawrylak]

Steve

Beautiful bike.  What hubs and rims are you using?.  Are they anodized gold?  look stunning 

Also, is the chain stay protector original or did you install it.  My 88 Voyaguer has the same type, metal with adhesive backing.  I was wondering if you have a source for it.  I need to get a replacement.

Finally, do you feel a difference with the 80mm BBD (at the time 5mm lower than the Road)

John Hawrylak

Woodstown NJ

[RichS]

Fantastic! My favorite era of Rivendells. Would love to get my hands on a LL.

Best,

Rich in ATL

[Stephen Fredette]

Yes it's the Dia Compe. My greatest regret is not getting more braze-ons for racks, so this was the best solution. I have an actual TA Mafac rack on another bike and I've never had a problem with brake bolts, but I always use a decaleur.

[Stephen Fredette]

The rims are Mavic OR10s and the hubs are Pellisier 2000s. Most of the components in the present set-up are gold anodized, since gold goes so well with the "Rivendell bue" as this color was known then. I don't normally go for anodizing on parts, but I couldn't resist.

Here's a parts breakdown:

Wheels: Mavic OR10 700c gold anodized rims

Pellisier 2000 gold anodized hubs with 8 speed freewheel

Tufo 28mm tubular tires

Derailleurs: Simplex gold anodized SLJ front

Campagnolo Euclid rear (alternatively Precision Billet Proshift rear)

Brakes: Mafac 2000 gold anodized w/ Dia Compe rack

Handlebars: Nitto( I've honestly forgotten) w/Gilles Berthoud decaleur

Stem: Custom steel by Richard Moon

Saddle: Rivendell special B17 w/ copper rails

Seatpost: Nitto Crystal Fellow (Grant called it the Frog)

Lights: Brass1920's Eveready and chrome 1960's Ray-O-Vac flashlights being modded with high output LED optics. The flashlight rack holder hardware came from Velo Orange.

Headset: EDCO Professional gold anodized

Crankset: TA Zephyr 50-38-26 w/ Lyotard Berthet pedals.

Yes, the chainstay protector is the adhesive back type. I think I got it from Velo Orange a long time ago.

As for the bottom bracket, I've alys ridden bikes with this sort of geometry, so I couldn't say.

yr obdt svt

Stephen Fredette