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What has Rivendell Bicycle works to do with DSLR Exchange?
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Kim Coxon
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The link works for me. Have you tried typing the address in manually?
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Nick R. said:
JohnM
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I suspect it is an issue with the web hosting company used to host rangefinderforum. Things get a little crossed up and you went to another customer of theirs'.
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nick, email jorge for him to check up on it.
we (the mods) really have little connection to the dslr site, in terms of inside info or power to change things there.
joe
we (the mods) really have little connection to the dslr site, in terms of inside info or power to change things there.
joe
cbass
Nutmegger
Rivendell Bicycles are excellent machines.
Humor note: I think that Grant Petersen might fit in well in this forum
, as some of us are "retro-grouches" in our own right.
Happy holidays!
Humor note: I think that Grant Petersen might fit in well in this forum
, as some of us are "retro-grouches" in our own right.Happy holidays!
markinlondon
Elmar user
Rivendell bicycles are, to my mind, more like a classic rangefinder than a dSLR. A beautiful, gimmick-free design that says "friend for life" rather than the dSLR which is much more like a carbon Trek or something, designed to be discarded in a year or two to take advantage of the latest upgrades
BTW, Grant Petersen shoots with a Bessa R2.
BTW, Grant Petersen shoots with a Bessa R2.
dpetrzelka
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Not a bad mistake--I love handmade lugged steel frames, as well as vintage cameras.
Here is a fixie frame I built a year and a half ago-- (it was shot with an SLR, unfortunately) Mitered the tubes and sculpted the lugs on the front porch of my apartment with a pair of half-round files.
Lugged Steel Fixie
-D
Here is a fixie frame I built a year and a half ago-- (it was shot with an SLR, unfortunately) Mitered the tubes and sculpted the lugs on the front porch of my apartment with a pair of half-round files.
Lugged Steel Fixie
-D
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JohnM
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Custom Rivedells are works of art - a friend of mine bought a custom from them a couple of years ago. I don't even want to know what it cost and it took about a year to get it.
It wasn't made by Rivendell, though. I think they have a couple of contractors that actually make the custom bikes for them these days. Still beautiful and still with a very kind steel ride....
...but I still prefer the Trek OCLV frames.
It wasn't made by Rivendell, though. I think they have a couple of contractors that actually make the custom bikes for them these days. Still beautiful and still with a very kind steel ride....
...but I still prefer the Trek OCLV frames.
radiocemetery
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I still wear my R.O.N.A. T-shirt ( Retro-grouches of North America), that I got from Rivendell, and ride an old Eisentraut. I guess that fits in with my old Yashica C and my 68 Spottie, and don't get me started on tube (valve) audio.
Steve at the radiocemetery
Steve at the radiocemetery
KoNickon
Nick Merritt
I thought Grant was a member here at one time. I know that he has been a participant on Stephen Gandy's rangefinder list, and was in fact working with his English cycle bag supplier to make a camera bag, based on the design of another member of that list. I don't know where that stands.
There's a strong parallel between the type of bikes Rivendell makes and classic cameras.
There's a strong parallel between the type of bikes Rivendell makes and classic cameras.
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Nick R.
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back alley said:
I'll do that.
BTW, dpetrzelka, great looking bike. Do you have a site detailing how you did it? My friend is really interested in trying something similar.
dpetrzelka
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Nick R,
I took a bunch of slides of the process- at least the final jig, and detailed shots before brazing. I'll try to dig them up, and post them. There were two books I found from the 1970's that gave great advice and are about the only two books on frame building; I'll look up those names as well.
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I took a bunch of slides of the process- at least the final jig, and detailed shots before brazing. I'll try to dig them up, and post them. There were two books I found from the 1970's that gave great advice and are about the only two books on frame building; I'll look up those names as well.
-D
SteveM(PA)
Poser
I think I've gotten a mudguard, and some proofide from them. I always lust after those Carradice bags, if they still carry them.
amateriat
We're all light!
This is all kind of funny, since Grant Petersen, Rivendell's leading light, has a strong preference for Bessa RFs over SLRs.
No Riv (or Atlantis, Bleirot or Quickbeam) in my bike stable, alas, but it's all steel, and mostly lugged (well, no lugs on the Moulton, but look at that silver-brazed latticework!)
Details: pics taken late August 1985 (a week after it was shipped new to me). Location: Central Park; and Spring 1987, with AM/Zzipper fairing. Location. Guggenheim museum.
- Barrett
No Riv (or Atlantis, Bleirot or Quickbeam) in my bike stable, alas, but it's all steel, and mostly lugged (well, no lugs on the Moulton, but look at that silver-brazed latticework!)
Details: pics taken late August 1985 (a week after it was shipped new to me). Location: Central Park; and Spring 1987, with AM/Zzipper fairing. Location. Guggenheim museum.
- Barrett
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Nick R.
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Thanks, D. I look forward to seeing them.
Barret, That's a great looking ride.
What a fortuitous mix-up in links. I've enjoyed the bike pics and talk. I used to race USCF sanctioned events in the eighties on my blue Pinerello.
Barret, That's a great looking ride.
What a fortuitous mix-up in links. I've enjoyed the bike pics and talk. I used to race USCF sanctioned events in the eighties on my blue Pinerello.
amateriat
We're all light!
dpetrzelka: also looking forward to seeing more pics of that fixie - looks gorgeous!
Mike: thanks! I still love it after all these years.
- Barrett
Mike: thanks! I still love it after all these years.
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dpetrzelka
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I'll see what I can dig up later this evening--
How about audiophile tube amps-- any of you into single ended triodes?
-D
How about audiophile tube amps-- any of you into single ended triodes?
-D
amateriat
We're all light!
Stop...yourself...now...!dpetrzelka said:I'll see what I can dig up later this evening--
How about audiophile tube amps-- any of you into single ended triodes?
-D
(Used to sell high-end audio in another life, playing with crazy components from the usual suspects; now content with good but mild-mannered solid-state gear.)
- Barrett
dpetrzelka
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- Barrett
Way Off Topic....
I just happen to also build a tube amp now and then-- My stereo is all DIY; a little 6DJ8 based phono preamp, 12au7 based preamp, and a pair of 2A3 monoblocks into single drivers on the back end. Some are from Bottlehead kits, others scratch built to match.
Here is a little 6DN7 headphone amp I use at work.
single ended headphone amp
There's something about a 35mm rangefinder and some single ended mojo that makes life great.
-D
Way Off Topic....
I just happen to also build a tube amp now and then-- My stereo is all DIY; a little 6DJ8 based phono preamp, 12au7 based preamp, and a pair of 2A3 monoblocks into single drivers on the back end. Some are from Bottlehead kits, others scratch built to match.
Here is a little 6DN7 headphone amp I use at work.
single ended headphone amp
There's something about a 35mm rangefinder and some single ended mojo that makes life great.
-D
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Topdog1
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Remeber the Dynaco D70 and PAS-3? That was "rangefinder" stereo equipment. Even when they were new in the '60s.
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