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RBW Diamond Ball Cap - Slate
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Bicycle Fan Club Ball Cap - Ripstop - Foliage Green n Navy
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Mike Miniplumper
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Mike FramePlumper Frame Pump
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Frame - Lugged Susie W. Longbolts / Wolbis Slugstone
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Bicycle Sentences Book
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Brooks B68 Saddle
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Frame - Clem 2024
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Clem Completes 2024
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Crank - Silver - Double 42/28 (with guard)
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Crank - Silver - Wide/low double 38x24 (with guard)
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Crank - Silver - Triple 44x34x24
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Fun, Comfortable, Useful, and Safe
We make bikes for day riders and tourers, commuters and shoppers, trail riders and athletes, get-arounders and recreationalists, family riders and earth-savers.
We don’t make bikes for racers or weekend warriors, and we don’t use carbon, because it’s dangerous. We don’t make uncomfortable, short-lived, road bikes or mechanically overkilled mountain bikes. Our CrMo steel UNracing bikes are sleek, gorgeous, comfortable, efficient, safe, will last longer, and be safer every ride.
Rivendells are mechanical bikes. Pedal-powered.
We recognize that motorized bikes solve problems pedal bikes can't, but we seriously lack the brain-power to design or make them. So we stick to our true and only love—pedal bikes. When it's a pedal bike you want, we're your people.
How do I get one?
Our weekly email newsletter is the best way to stay informed about when frames are coming and when they'll be available to buy. At the time of this writing, (3/13/23), demand has leveled out a bit since the early days of the pandemic, but frames still sell quickly. The newsletters aren't super sales-y and we try our best to make them entertaining and informative. Sign up by hitting the button below.
Rivendell Frames - Three Ways
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Road bikes: For pavement, light loads
But far more versatile, comfortable, and safe than garden-variety road bikes. Fit tires to 40, fender clearance, and fit small racks. Our road frames make sense and ride great.
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Country Bikes: All roads, some trails
Our country bikes are zippy like a road bike, with added load-carrying capacity, and tire clearance to 48mm. Kind of like a gravel bike, but with rack braze-ons and a classic, beautiful look (instead of amorphous carbon). Super useful and comfortable. If you ride mostly roads and want some carrying capacity, get one of these. Our most popular style.
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Hillibike: All-Rounders, for trails, touring, roads.
Our Hillibikes are mostly for rough trails and tires to 2.5-inches, but with smooth-treaded 1.6-inch tires, are as capable as any towny, commuter, or touring bicycle. Long wheelbases and raised handlebars make off-roading easy and fun.
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Our Weekly Newsletter
It's not a typical company newsletter. It's closer to a blog, with bike tips, galleries, project updates, film photos, and the occasional ride report. It's also how we keep our customers apprised of frame and bike presales and new products.
Peeking Through the Knothole - News
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Anudda look at lugged Susies
The container came Friday and we're busy shipping out framesets now.
Anudda look at lugged Susies
The container came Friday and we're busy shipping out framesets now.
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What you'll need to upright a drop bar bike
A guide to the stuff you'll need to get to switch a bike from drop bars to more comfortable swept back bars.
What you'll need to upright a drop bar bike
A guide to the stuff you'll need to get to switch a bike from drop bars to more comfortable swept back bars.
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Philly Bike phone photo dump
Phone photos from Philly. Maybe we'll show the film ones later?
Philly Bike phone photo dump
Phone photos from Philly. Maybe we'll show the film ones later?
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Strapper Keeper - A Tip From Pam Murray
Last weekend Roman, Will, and I were in Philly for the Philly Bike Expo. While we were there we had dinner with Pamela Murray, Leah Petersen, and a few others....
Strapper Keeper - A Tip From Pam Murray
Last weekend Roman, Will, and I were in Philly for the Philly Bike Expo. While we were there we had dinner with Pamela Murray, Leah Petersen, and a few others....
Grant's Blahg
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Late May, Bob Dylan's birthday, to be exact
FROM TIME TO TIME we've had anagram contests, either for fun or, in the case of the Gus Bootls-Wilson, to come up with another name for basically the same bike....
Late May, Bob Dylan's birthday, to be exact
FROM TIME TO TIME we've had anagram contests, either for fun or, in the case of the Gus Bootls-Wilson, to come up with another name for basically the same bike....
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Late April/Early May Combo Special: Helmets, te...
I just read this finished Blahg and I don't love the tone of it. It's too rat-a-tat-tat confident and laying-it-down critically about other stuff. It's kind of an extreme version...
Late April/Early May Combo Special: Helmets, te...
I just read this finished Blahg and I don't love the tone of it. It's too rat-a-tat-tat confident and laying-it-down critically about other stuff. It's kind of an extreme version...
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March Blahg. Less reading, more pictures, small...
. I know what you're thinking, if what you're thinking is what I used to think: Thumbtacks are the originals, pushpins happened maybe during the Nixon administration. And yet: I...
March Blahg. Less reading, more pictures, small...
. I know what you're thinking, if what you're thinking is what I used to think: Thumbtacks are the originals, pushpins happened maybe during the Nixon administration. And yet: I...