Rosco Mtn Mixte?

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

There’s a post on the Facebook Rivendell buy/sell/trade group that has a Rosco with the lift-a-tube shown for sale. I can’t seem to post the link here - will try in a second post. It’s $$$ at 3k, but I know people go crazy for these for some reason, so heads up and maybe a Merry Christmas present for someone.

Leah 

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3127504017358010/permalink/5447624762012579/

[Conway Bennett]

One of the best Rivs ever.  My wife has the medium, but it was a $900 ish frame new.  You could just have a builder clone it (or a small run of frames) for under $3k.

[Ryan Frahm]

I think the wheelset alone makes it semi reasonable. Having a frame/fork built will be a small fortune with no guarantee they will nail the usual Riv magic!

[Mackenzy Albright]

I really aesthetically enjoy the rosco bubbe. It's too bad it was such a short lived frame set. That XL is a good looking bike.  

[Coal Bee Rye Anne]

Thanks, Leah, for the heads up for the long legged of us who happen to be non-facebook-users!  That is certainly Will’s Mega Roscoe MTN Mixte and I think made in the single digits (I guess all sizes of the Roscoe Mixte were down in single digits but can’t remember.). This size MTN Mixte was based on forks for designed but never built 64 or maybe 66cm Hunqapillars (I forget the exact size but it was bigger than the biggest made 62cm Hunq.) 

If this were frame only and local I would definitely need to consider make physical and financial space to pursue it.  I strongly prefer the aesthetics of this model vs. the Clem L for some reason.  It’s somewhat hard to explain, because I’m not opposed to the curved L in any way and even really like the Gus/Susie top tube curves… I think it’s more how the Roscoe’s straight, nearly parallel tubes kind of resemble a Raleigh Sports three speed step through.

I was on the fence for a bit between this model and the Clem H once I caught wind of their imminent release. Without the finances for both, I opted for the value and certainty of the 65cm Clem complete, which was released first and in greater numbers, although still limited in the XL size for the discontinued H type.  I’d eventually come to completely miss the initial announcement of the Roscoe presale until after they (XL) were all accounted for anyway so it kind of worked out for the best that I went for the Clem when the opportunity came as there.  I always thought I’d still try to snag one of these Roscoes if they ever became available on the second hand market but would definitely need to be frame/fork for me to even make it work and still retain the Clem.

Looks like a really nice build and hope that for whoever ends up grabbing it, it puts a huge smile on their face every time the get in the saddle!

Brian 

Lawrenceville NJ

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[Coal Bee Rye Anne]

Wow, my last few posts have been full of typos.  Maybe I need to go dormant again for a while… but I had to at least acknowledge my blatant repeat offense at misspelling ROSCO as Roscoe.  The backwards 3 in the Bubbe part seems to have become ingrained enough in my mind that I falsely attribute it to both halves of the name.

[Paul Clifton]

Brian, FWIW (not much, especially since this thread is about the Massive Mountain Mixte) - but I think there were teens of the mediums made. They ended up doing two runs of them, and one of them was at least 10 bikes. So they're less scarce, but only slightly. The mediums used Appaloosa forks.

Paul in AR

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[Coal Bee Rye Anne]

Than you, Paul.  Glad to hear there are even more getting to enjoy the mediums.  I recall each Rosco was based on specific surplus forks, from Simpleone, Appaloosa, Hunq, etc. but definitely forgot or missed that a follow up run was made for the smaller size Mixte.  Likely just overlooked being excluded from the sizing range.  

It kind makes me laugh at the original timing of all of the Rosco stuff as it was also right after some of those unpainted forks were available as web specials for a while and I picked a Simpleone one up for a project only to have the frame fail right before rebuild time but only after acquiring all the parts for the overhaul.  I eventually resold the unused fork but that was one less Rosco available at whatever model/size that specific fork length became.

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