Rivendell Reader Index

1 Sorry about the color. Never Again! The Rivendell Frames RAISE DAT ! Bob Gordon suggests Updates The Rivendell Catalog one way to ridyourselfoflower backpain Suspension & Set-up The Cheapskate 3 The Rivendell Reader, Number Three 5 The Days of Ovaltine and Judo Chops News Update:No more Cheap Bikes from Editorial EDITORIAL China Poetry Corner PROGRESS REPORT Just Keep A-Rollin', Wagon Wheels by Helen The Progress Report L Ett E R..S. Kelley A Death In The Family ... THE HAPPY RIDER Homeless Notes Letters INSIDE THE VARSlty by Marc Muller. Il - The Danish Dagger Story by Errett Callahan How Children Learn to Ride lustrated by Chris Fiorini Questions and Answers The Happy Rider The SPO Factor RIVENDELL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE How to Get a Job in the Industry by The Dirt On Mud CONTEST Win big.Yourchancetobe - Ric Comar Bicycle Suspension . comeasalesperson.Yourfiiendswillloveit! Member Interview #1: Tom Zowada, Knife - A Biography of Fred DeLong ORDER FORM maker Member Profile: Tim Mitoma .. THE FEEL OF WOOD byMarshallFisher. The Beat Generation by Roy Herman, Rash Brooks Saddles and the Brooks Saddle Com - Reprintedwithpermission Dr. pany CATS, CRANKS, AND MOMENTS by A Short History of Carradice The George T. Flegg Story NicholasJasper Frame Materials Madness by Jim Papadopou - Reader Survey CHUCK HARRIS AND THE FIRST los The Rivendell Frames AMERICAN by Sheldon History with Herlihy by David Herlihy The All-Rounder Frame Brown Bike of the Year by Ted Costantino The Road Frame THE u FACTOR Last Second News The Mountain Frame WHY NOT DRIVE? By Howard Runyon The Fabric of Memory by Gary Keene The Rivendell Catalogue MERCHANDISE Rivendell Catalog THE TYGER By Gabe Konrad The Thoroughly Contented Riv. RIder Rivendell Reader 4 EDITORIAL 6 A Citation from the Cadence Cops Rivendell Reader, Take Two MEET SPENCER & GARY Editorial The Progress Report PROGRESS REPORT The History of REYNOLDS TUBING by Letters LETTERS Chris Lowe Liability: A Tale of Madness by Howard Run - THE HAPPY RIDER Where would it stop if there were no limits? yon SHRIEKING ABOUT STEMS: About The Happy Human Cyclists Take Care quills, extensions, cones, wedges, and stress Member profile: Graham Bergh; Resource Interview with Bullseye's Durham on the steering tube Revival, Inc Personal Irritants by Keith Mills WHY A BOOMERANG BOOMERANGS Financials The Cheapskate By the guy who makes the ones we sell A Better Keyboard by Ric Comar Z Stuff that Works by Maynard Hershon RANDOM NOTES The TT/HH Factor Unparticular DEATH OF A RACER Howard Runyon’s Progress Report If the World Were a Village evolutionJjom racer t o self-desicribed Fred Letters Advance Warning by Ted Costantino A HOLIDAY SERMONETTE Howard says Jobst Overview by Earle Young The Speed Robbers there’sa lot t o be happy about. But is there Contest Getting Fit by Steven Sheffield really? The Trials of BB by Stephen Cairns The Happy Rider FRAME NEWS & INFO Q&A by Chris Lowe Member Profile: John Segal WHY I WON’T BUY A COMPUTER by Flyer Augustus The Danish Dagger Story by Errett Callahan WendellBerry. Reprinted withpersmission. Notes on the Metal NEW ITEMS AND SOME OLD STUFF 7 When Atheletes Ate Wonderbread '50,000-Mile-a-Year Freddie by Scott Martin Things About Rims Project Update Freddie Hoffman Now by Gary Boulanger Interview: Michael Kone of Bicycle Classics Ziptie your way to Nirvana Freddie's Gear How to Wrap Bars Neatly Progress Report The Happy Human How to Revive a Swaybacked Brooks Why I Ride Half-step by Piaw Na Why the Best Doesn't Always Win Time to Stop (a reprint) Winter Flyer Bar Tape the Hard Old French Way Questionnaire Mechanik's Corner Progress Report Letters Meet Joe and Allen Meet Pete, The New Guy Greyhounds! Letters Project Update 12 When German Shepherds (not the Raven Contest Results Progress Report type from whom a new staff might Edward Scott on Brakes Q & A make a grand gift) Were Called Police The Wheel: Slow Birth of a Great Idea by Opening the Mail Gabe Konrad The Flyer Dogs Generally Good Advice on Bike Mechanics Editorial The T Factor 10 How Cameras & Binoculars Used to Joe Starck Rear Derailleur Development Since D-Day Smell A History of Joe-Builts by Frank Berto Half-step Gearing by Frank J Berto Editorial V Brakes by Sheldon Brown Mechanick's Corner Dropouts In the Works Typewriter Man - by Ian Frazier Young Artists and Writers Q & A; Singular Where are you, Edward Berry - by Maynard How to Carry Heavy Loads November Stuff for Sale Hershon No More Gloves, No More Sunglasses by Order Form The Touring Heron - Edward Berry Peter Kelly How Many Pits to Pittsburg Mad Ramblings about Fashions 8 The Late Eight News and Notes Trans-Atlantic Clubroom Letters Editorial Touring without Progress Report British 'Cross the Early Years by Gabe Kon - Interview: Tom Ritchey Sprung Flyer rad Development Power by Kevin Cameron Order Form How to Build a Complete Rivendell for less How to Get a Complete, Built-up Rivendell Coupons than $2100 Bike A Frame-Design Primer Letters The Happy Human Project Updates 13 When Hood meant a Person and The Myth of KOPS by Keith Bontrager Progress Report Letters The Flyer Homey didn't Project Updates Editorial Progress Report The SHins of Shimano By Frank Berto Fabrics Don't Breathe 11 When Kids at Walnuts and Feared Making Bar-ends from Downtubers Rivendell LongLow Road Frame Quicksand Cobbworks Oyster Bucket A Comfortable Position Catologue Fixes and inventory Update Editorial Rivendell Cyclo-Cross Frame Phyllis Harmon and the League of American Frame News Partswatch Wheelmen by Gabe Conrad All about Herons Winter Flyer Report on the Mid-September InterBike A Brief History of Derailleur Design by Order Form Show Harold Bridge Coupons Childrens Page Interview with Harold The Z Factor and an Aftermath The Randonneurs by Gabe Konrad 9 When Box Kites Blackened the Skies Widget Review: Chris Kelly's TakeOFfs Letters Editorial Stringing Bars by Larry Bauer The Kids Page Cheap Bike Art Followed by Handlebar Helper Who Invented the by Frank Jim Steins Lockring Wrench Letters J. Berto : Bulky and Beautiful by Gabe Edward Berry Lives, and Writes an open Let - Wrenches by Ric Hjertberg Konrad ter to Maynard Progress Report Our New Lugs and Craig Dawson The Flyer Rivendell Frame Order Form Introducing the Atlantis Order Form The Happy Human Notes and Updates Coupons Why Mom and Pop Hate the Bike Biz The Start of a Rivendell Fork with Martin Interview with Alex Moulton by Chester Tweedy 14 In the Halcyon Days of Trick Pho - Kyle, Ph.D Gallery tography and Reverse Psychology Letters Pannierless Touring Peter's Web Update An Interview with Maynard Hershon Editorial Newthing Review: Ritchey 2x9 Industry News & Gossip Sunset for SunTour by Frank Berto How to Tie and Solder Rivendell Frame Order Form 2000 Lifetime Memberships The TC Factor Obsolete Brakes and Hubs for the Future by SunTour Rises by Shoji Onozawa Progress Report Jan Heine ShowBike Rider: Grant Petersen Debashis The Parker Jotter by Robert H. Gordon ShowBike Rider: Ted Durant Summerflyer How Ball Bearings Get That Way Roadworthiness: The Forgotten Factor Reader Survey The Person Behind the Persona by Danielle Survey: Supposing you had just One Bike to Order Form Steel Ride Winter Flyer Childrens Page 17 When Kids Brushed with Gleem and Order Form Letters Project UPdates Parents Drank MJB 19 When "Orange Roughy" Might Have Progress Report Editorial The Winter Flyer Herons Meant Any Number of Things Rivendollars Heron Order Form Editorial How to Braze a Lug - by Joe Starck Renewal and Order Form 15 WHen Hearts of Romaine Meant Rivendell Frame Order Form A Look at Lugs III: San Rensho NSL One Heck of a lot more than Just Salad Look at Lugs: Cinelli Forging 101 Paris-Brest-Paris in History - Henry King - Six Steps in a Nitto Forged Stem Ingredients man Saddle Sores by Bernie Burton, M.D. Editorial Henry's PBP Story Classics Match Unpaid Advertisement The Great American Bike Boom by Frank J. Questions we're often Asked Interview with Lon Haldeman Berto Projects in the Works Gallery Atlantis Update Rivendell Frame order form Interbike Trade Show Notes Letters Protect that Top Tube from Dents Peter's Web Update Repack Reunion by Charles Kelly Sculptures in Leather by Jane and Michael News and Miscellaneous Meash (Debashis's Poem) Stern Brooks Flyer Saddle Enough Bike. No More by Maynard Hershon Rivendell Gallery Letters Kneeling at the PX1O Alter by Donald An - Reader Changes, News & Notes Meet Jerome derson Moving God Around by Beth Hammon Superbe Cranks and Willow Chainrings The Banana Bag Lettesr Fall Flyer Notes and Updates Progress Report Order Form RivenDollars The Spring Flyer Panasonic Rodeo Bike Rivendollars 18 When Blinky Thumped the Gut Bass Spring Flyer Reader Survey and Soloed for a While Order Forms Order Form Editorial 20 When Only Rich Kids with Buck 16 I don't Care What they Say I won't Renewal and Order Form Questions for Women Teeth Got Braces Stay in a World WIthout Lugs A Look at Lugs II: Nervex Professional Editorial Editorial Good Stuff Renewal and Order Form Lugs Lights with Tim Seavey, Henry Kingman, Survey: A Guy/Woman Survey on Body Di - Why People Who Like Lugs Like Lugs mensions and Bikes On a Different Note: Chuck's Bike by Tom Reader 24: When Abercrombie & Fitch A Look at Lugs IV: Henry James Talks about Gensemer Editorial His Know About Sidepull Brakes A Look at Plugs. An Illiterate Alitteration Science: Doctor/Cyclist/Coach Arnie Baker News & Updates and Notes Zipper Story Sez Beware Letters Mechanic’s Corner; Cones and Wedges Fundamentals: Toe Clips & Straps & How to Maynard's Page: This Ad Will Self-Destruct Rambouillet Operate Them Classics Review: Two Frame Pumps. Silca Brazing on D’Bottle Stars, Diamonds, What - Technique: Cornering if You Crash A Lot. Impero & Zefal HPX ever Try These Ways Fall Flyer Letters Neat Things We Don't Sell: Miche Super - Parts and Accessories Order Form How To: Chain Length type Crank The French Randonneur Bicycle, by Jan Technical: A Fistful of Post: An Old Sizing Reader 22: And I Think to Myself, Heine Method Still Works What a Wonderful Wool It Ain’t About Da Bike, by Maynard Who and Who Else Rides a Rivendell Editorial Da Heck It Ain’t, by Grant On a Different Note: The Fender Strato - Survey Kathy caster by Marc Mueller A Look at Lugs (Our New Crown) Atlantis News & Updates Doctor Bernie on Foot Pain Jeff’s Op-Ed about Cyclers Scolding Cyclers RivenDollars Check Your Bike This Winter, Make Sure about Helmets Letters. These are Two Really Good Ones. Everything’s Fine Boston Brown Bread. By S & W Please Read Them. Overhauling a Phil Wood Hub Maynard's Page: Not Green Remember the Rigi? Reader 25: Life Before Leaf Blowers Classics Review: Campy Record Sidepull The Sub-24-Hour Overnight Editorial Brake Lever Who Rides an Atlantis? A Look at Lugs: The Long Shen 302s Summer Flyer Classics: Maxicar Hubs. By Jan Heine Interview with Long Shen’s Alan and Shirley Parts and Accessories Order Form Curt Goodrich Brazes in a Seat Stay Cap Kerr, by Shawn Nagel Bicycle Makeover Sheldon Brown Interview 21 When the Streets of Rome Were Introducing John and Nina How to Ride Warm When It’s Cold, by Ed Filled with Rubble Maynard’s Page Pavelka and Fred Matheny Editorial Joe Bell Interview and Follow-up Explana - Chain Line, Chain Path, and C.A.P.P. Membership & Order Form tion of How He Paints Brazing the , by Curt Questionnaire The Pre-Spring Flyer Goodrich A Look at Lugs V: English Lugs from the Classics: The Gramps of Platform Pedals- '30s Reader 23: When Band-Aids Came in Lyotard “Berthet” Mod. 23 Science: Crotchitis & Crotch-Rub by Bernie Tins Mail Burton, MD A New Fork Crown in Town Editorial Atlantis Review and Update The French Camping Bicycle, by Jan Heine A Look at Lugs. Fork Crowns, Actually. Dif - Fundamentals: Handlebars & Hand Posi - Goatheads: The Bad Seeds, by Steve Leach ferent Styles. tions The ABC’s of the Leather Thornflicker Classics: Huret for the Jubilee Neat Things We Don't Sell: The Brompton Say It Ain’t So, Joel Who Rides a Rivendell? Technique: Traversing The Fourth Hand The Baggins Boxy Bag Brooks Is Back Women’s Frames Pointing the Dropouts Technical: Mechanik's Corner by Joe Bauder Random Opinions & Nothing More, About Letters Sizing the Atlantis Things Related to Design Maynard: Tough Love Review: Rear Racks Superlight Touring (SST), by Curt Goodrich Interview Where Have All the Ponchos Gone? Henry Kingman Projects Who and Who Else Rides a Rivendell? Setting up a Front Derailer Joe Young and the Modern Classic Wheel A Very Well Mannered Ballooner The Way It Used to Be, by Maynard Her - S24O Stories and Pix Design: A Tale of Two Deores shon Rambouillet A New Kind of Saddlebag Support & An - Flyer other Project Reader 26: When Rope Swings Didn’t Get Chopped Down Ed & Fred on Riding Far Point of View: Anti-Riding Clothing Editorial Michael Barry Interview The Panasonic Frenchy A Look at Lugs: Lugs From Macchu Picchu? The Brooks Swallow Medical Page: Dr. John Reach on Numb Handlebar Height and Saddle-to-Bar Dis - Protect Your Saddle from Rain and Sweat Hands tance How to Assemble a Bike A PBP First-Timer Tells About His Ride Ed and Fred’s Do’s & Don’ts Mark Abele’s New Cyclo-Cross Bike Rich and John on Tyler and Riding with Bro - Horseshoes How to Mount Fenders When the Bike ken Bones Rene Herse Randonneur Doesn’t Want You To Bob’s Trick Dill Pickles & Home Run Pies A Look at Lugs: Kirk Pacenti’s Fancy Carv - One Frame, Three Bikes. Actually 3 Frames, Raleigh Superbe ables but They’re Identical. The Underbike Michael Barnes Talks About Why Bikes Stay Travels with Henry How to Fix a Flat Up Fundamentals: How to Remove and Install a Step-on Pedals, Funny Pedals, and the French Bike Mix. Jan Heine’s Last Story on Rear Wheel Wooden One French Bike Framebuilding Section: Caps versus Plugs Atlantis Setup Peter Moore on Dolphins and Cyclers and A Look at Lugs Road Rash, Shimano’s Generator Hub Indicator Species Ian MacArtney and His Neon Clocks Who Rides a Rivendell and Atlantis? Wish List for 2004 Good Things Reviewed Ed Burke, So Long No Brakes! Reader 27: When Kids Chewed Tar and Feet On Pedals Contest Involving a York Mint Patty Romulus and Redwood Who Rides These Things? Chased the Bug Truck Maynard Maynard Editorial Mail Reader 29: When Pooh Was in Books Reader 31: When Most Dads Had an Installing a Normal Headset Only Elephant Gun and Most Kids Were Ed & Fred Talk About Knees Freewheels and Cassettes Editorial Part Cherokee Charlie Cunningham Interview Mail Editorial Vision Thoroughbred Richard Sachs Interview Mail A New Crank, Called Bike Drive, From Aus - New Kind of Brake Lever Are You a Woman? tria Good Things Review Interview: Toyo’s Tetsuya Ishigaki Chuck’s Bikes: Mercian Superlight Profile: Legnano Mod. 44 Good Things Review Booting a Gash The Pedersen Bike Horner ‘Splains Headsets Travels with a Wire-Haired Fox Terrier How to Put Your Chain Back on After It The Quickbeam Robyn’s 49.5cm Rivendell Falls Off Lower Back Pain Upgrade This Review: The Albatross Handlebar Wald’s Fantabulous New Basket Quickbeam Gearing Observations After 405,000 Miles Experiments with Rake and Trail How to Beat the Sun Lon Haldeman’s Solo Ride Down South The Catfish Kid Force, Horsepower, Speed, Math and Climb - The Sub-24 Hour Overnight (Revisited) A Look at Lugs: The RC-03 Fork Crown ing Tall Riders, Small Selection Fender Installation & a Related Fender Story Pop Quiz In the Works and in Our Minds Bicycle Makeover Notes & Disjointed Ramblings about What’s Bob Barriskill and his Romulus Who Rides a Rivendell? Going On Inside Here Help Us Get More People, Please Wish List for the New Year (This Year, A Look at Lugs, Part 10 Maynard 2004) Maynard Reader 28: When Scriptwriters Knew Reader 30: When Spam Meant One the Difference Between “Nauseated” Thing: Good Lunch! Reader 32: When Song Censors Wor - and “ Nauseous” Editorial ried About Louie Louie Mail Editorial Editorial Jan Heine’s Center Pull Story Mail Mail Interview: Nitto’s Mr. Yoshikawa Live Centerpull? Life @ Bstone Some Bstone Bikes Interview with Kozo Shimano T-Shirt Meet Sterling & Miesha MUSA Wear Update Cinelli Makeover Books & Videos Tools Mind Your Own Business A Look @ Lugs Bob’s Accident Our Youngest Member Comparing Frame Joints A Look at Lugs (Richard Sach’s Newvex) Maynard Projects Bicycle Makeover VI Everything You Always Wanted to Know Mind Your Own Business: Color Services Reader 37: When everybody knew About Trusses Maynard somebody who brushed with Gleem Descent Without Brakes Who’d Ride a Quickbeam? Editorial How Light? Back Cover Mail How Mark Cleans All Chains, Always Mazama: The bike formerly known as Buf - Good Things Review Reader 35: Bluebells blazing, where the falo, then Bison Proud to Be a Tourish Aberdeen waters flow Pedal & Hoof, Pedal & Hoof Kraftbrau Editorial Henry Kingman’s Trip Maynard Mail The Bleriot Project Bison Update Good Shoes for Cycling Reader 33: When Toothpaste Was Interview with Gilles Berthoud Modern Classic: The Shimano BL-400 Dense and Came in Lead Tubes Cane Creek’s new brake levers Brake Lever Editorial Fork design and comparison with regard to Profile: Lynn McClintock Mail (oh, just read it...) Trail How Steel Fails (It’s a Good Way) Quiz for money Shimmy Meet Our New Chap, Brian Everything and more that you wanted to Brian’s Quickbeam Racing Reflections know about 603 Setting Up Bags Reconsidering The Country Bike Who’s Behind the Glorious? Pain Pills Dyno hub test Bianchi San Jose Bike Review The 650B and Why It Should Live What the heck is it that makes a bike look Three Threadless Stems from Nitto A Look at Lugs (Saluki Lugs) good? Get Aboard the Silver Hoop, Departing Retrofitting Old Ten-Speeds with 650B Three good things Gate Nineteen Wheels Kirk Pacenti’s Slant Six lugs; and his new Maynard and Bicycling in Holland stem lugs, too The Story That’s Gonna Get Us in Hot Bike makeover, or not Reader 38: When Kids Knew Their Water Mark’s racks Knots Helmet Review: Bell Metro Saluki dogs A Rust Primer Mark’s new cyclo-cross bike Editorial New Projects Who rides an Atlantis? Mail Sartorial Advice Maynard Silver Brake Bicycle Makeover Basket Red Hen Bakery Reader 36: The poison in the middle of Rick the Painter Two New 650B Tires: Fatty Rumpkin, Maxy Maynard the golf ball Who Rides a Rambouillet? (Cora H.) Fasty Straddle Wires Lactic Acid Story Installing BB and BES Reader 34: Saddle me up my big white No E Contest Questions for the fairer sex White Industries ENO hub goose How much air? Bag Covers Editorial Craschedat Lantis Best Catalogue Ever Mail Projects in the Oven A Man of Letters Project Buffalo Ritchey Breakaway Handlebar Reach Drop Swoop Ramp and How to Fold Things Old French Bikes Return Mixtes Chainsuck Merinos Caused That? The Glorius and Wilbury Richard Schwinn Interview Rans Fusion Shozaburo Shimano and the Start of It All Chris Hoffer Update The A. Homer Hilsen Cars, Helmets, Fido Makeover Reader 41: The Tuff Thymes Issue A Modern Presidential History of the Road Maynard Editorial Bike Who Rides an Atlantis Mail Eric Karo’s Nasket & Nanniers Back Cover Insider Mechanix Alaska to Argentina 1973 by June Siple The Bombadil Too Big Bike and a Wooden Top Tube Reader 39: Brushing out the Maypo Tips, products, misc Waterbury Leather Works with Ipana Staff Guide Chainstays, Sidewalls & Triangles Corner Like a Triangle Andy Hampten Interview Staff Favorites Re-perking Saggy Saddles Keven’s Legolas Failures Sackville BarSack Robert Bailey Rides Again Rovert Bailey Update Shimano’s New 9-speed Handlebar Wrapping the Slow Way Old Mountain Bikes Don’t Brake with Rocks Pugsley Walnuts Roadside Debris Living Classics The Top Tube Ruse New 650B Tires Making the Badge Ravn The Roadeo Fun With Handlebars Trout and Fly-Fishing Shimmy Shimmy Coco Bop Frame and Bike Update Mark Sisson Interview Six Poems Protovelo No. 1 Mountain Bike More Tips Silver Washers & an Asymmetrical Learning Bikes Belgian Makeover Rig 700c to 650B Conversions Shop Tools Bag Rigging and Cycling Shoes Who Rides A? Scott Cutshall Update Two of Mark’s Bikes Slotted Leather Saddles Good Degreaser Strangest Bike Incident Down the Road in a Cloud of Smoke Seat Bags Two Scooters Back Page Meet Sam Hillborne Kickbikes Reader 40: Orangatangs at the Smor - Buying a Used Bike Who Rides an A. Homer Hilsen? Speculation about the Future of Bike Parts gasborg Surly Big Dummy How to Not Get Fat & Make Your Family Editorial Maynard Hershon Hate Riding The Ives Badge Steel Replacement Forks Fresh Hamstrings Forever Reader 42: When Kids Had Pea-Shoot - Who Rides a Betty? Peter Enright Interview Who Rides a Homer? ers & Slingshots & Played Mumblety- The Caveman Story Who Rides a Sam? Northland Woollens Peg The Efficiency Ruse The Shoes Ruse Editorial The Only Cyclist in Town - by Maynard. Kirk P. and the 650B Mail Letters Hershon How Not To Talk to Your Kids Establishing Limits. Some Opinions Twenty Dollars, Two Tubes and a Coffee - Seven Tips Herschel’s Broken Crank by Maynard Hershon The Raven Challenge Electronic Shifting Scott Cutshall’s Story Broken & Wobbly Wheels GrokSquat Goofing Around with Bikes Accidental Randonneuse Freddie Hoffman Swede-On-Hilsen The Make-Do Mechanic Justaburger Blogs and Beausage