The Buffalo Bike

[Dave Redmon]

What Riv bike does this design remind you of?

http://www.buffalobicycle.com/why-buffalo

[Deacon Patrick]

A single speed Boots! Here a link to the bike specs: http://www.buffalobicycle.com/storage/documents/Buffalo_callouts_AFRICA.pdf

The rear rack is rated to an impressive 100kg (220 lbs).

With abandon,
Patrick

[Patrick Moore]

I can't answer the question, but it's an interesting bike. The old roasters used in ex-Britannia Africa were used for huge loads, particularly charcoal, on massive, cottage-industry rear racks, but I expect that the Buffalo is stronger.

Thursday Bicycles at one time produced the Muttonmaster for the Navajo reservation; I see he still makes it:

http://www.thursdaybicycles.com/bicycle_frames/sheep_herding.html

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:06 AM Dave Redmon <daver...@hotmail.com> wrote:

What Riv bike does this design remind you of?

http://www.buffalobicycle.com/why-buffalo

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[tc]

Wow, that bike weighs 54 pounds. Somehow, the riders are gettin’ along nicely. Let there be no more complaints about Riv (or Surly) bike weight!

Tom

[Marty Gierke, Stewartstown PA]

For the old timers in the Bunch, or those who have read every Reader, issue #34 introduces a model called the Buffalo that made it to a prototype stage in 2005. Yes, it even had a rear disc brake and provision for a front disc! The horror! Designed for what we often call Clydesdales, but those are beautiful animals, no better nor worse than racing thoroughbreds. Would love to have seen a Buffalo badge in the style of Hunqapillar and Appaloosa. 

[Marty Gierke, Stewartstown PA]

This tease from RR33

Bikes aren’t designed for riders who weigh upwards of 350 pounds. but big people stand more to benefit from riding than anybody else, and have fewer exercise options. No fair. We’d like to see a

bike made specifically for them, and have designed a bike that ought to do the job. It’s a prototype, tig-welded for us, to our specs, by Kirk Pacenti. If we end up making the bike it’ll be lugged, and as much as we’d like to be able to do that now, it’s not likely, given that it would require $25K in tooling. We are that dumb, but not that rich. Meanwhile we had a prototype tig-welded, and one of our members will test it and report on it in the next issue. The working name is Buffalo.

[Chad]

Dave, my first thought was your Clem, but this bike seems to be built to survive the apocalypse! Yeah, it also made me think of that Buffalo prototype that was discussed in the old readers.

[Ed Carolipio]

I learned something new today, thanks for sharing. I notice a unicrown fork as well: what blasphemy is this? That extended seat tube above the top tube is characteristic of the Surly MTB tourers, like the Troll and Ogre. Difference is Surly puts a brace between the seat and top tube, then mates the chainstays level with the top tube.

--Ed C.