From this morning's BikeSnobNYC blog post. Timely.
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From this morning's BikeSnobNYC blog post. Timely.
Thanks, David. I’ll pass your request along to Will, who writes the emails. Bluesky is great. My one call-out is that it limits the captions to considerably fewer characters than Instagram, so I have to chop a lotta words out of posts (which I also post on IG).
Thanks, again!
Harry says: "Visitors from Japan:
Ryusei and Honoka.
They own multiple Rivendells,
And they’re on their Honeymoon.
They’re SUPER cool."
📸HHH IV
"The Appaloosa presale is next Wednesday, March 11th, at noon (Pacific time)
The presale will 'go live ' at noon next Wednesday << on this page.>>
<< >> = working hyperlink in the actual email. Find that in our LinkTree, or your inbox if you subscribe.
From our site: The Charlie H. Gallop is probably the most comfortable road bike you'll ever ride.
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Read more/look at pix: 🔗🌲👆🥸
We've tried a lot of pedals and this one is our prefered propulsion device* these days. They're perfect. $73.00. Made in Japan. 🇯🇵
* No one here has ever called them that. I/John just try to avoid using the same word in a sentence.
While we don't have an official uniform at Rivendell (we tried it briefly in 2000), the crew *does* often gravitate to the same duds.
Here's Will and James in March 2024.
New Bike Day for Alex!
📷 Harry
From Will's most recent Email Update 📬👉🏼
"Having Mondays off has its advantages: The Marin headlands, just north of the bridge, are basically empty except for the coyotes.
Read the rest by following the link in our profile.
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New Bike Day for Jim
📸 Harry
New Bike Day for Amy
📸 Harry
New bike day for Mike!
🚲 61cm Charlie Gallop 📸 Vince
From Will's 02.13.2026 Email Update: "I finished assembling my Gallop the week before last....I've managed to ride it a decent amount. Mostly, I've been commuting on it, but last Sunday I was able to go across the Golden Gate Bridge for it's inaugural Headlands ride."
🔗🎄☝️🥸
New Bike Day for Aaron
📸 Harry
One of Grant's pics from our Flickr page.
Link in our profile. 🔗🌲👆🥸
From Will's 02.13.2026 Email Update:
"Hey, thanks for all the OM-1 pre-orders!
They're on their way from Taiwan to us now, and we'll turn them around quickly once they get here."
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📬 Find the link to the Email in our 🔗🌲 in our profile🥸 and find the link to preorder an OM1 therein.
02.10.2025: Roman and James in our makeshift photo studio.
Will made this self-portrait by running over a bulb that tripped the shutter of his camera.
From our Flickr page, which you can find in the LinkTree in our profile. 🔗🌲👆🥸
New Email Update: 02.06.26. OM1 presale numbers, web specials, THE complete Rivendell Reader /catalog/brouchure/flyer archive for bicycle & RBW history buffs....and much, much more.
Find it all in our profile...or your inbox, if you subscribe.
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New Bike Saturday for Tom
📸 Will
In advance (anticipation?) of the arrival of our Silver-brand OM1 derailer, here's part o' a page from a 20 year-old RBW catalog featured in Grant's latest Blahg. (Might be easier to read on a laptop or tablet 🕵🏻♂️)
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Vince just dropped 600 OM1 derailers* on our site.
It is a pre-order, and as it says in the description. 👉🏼 Please note: This is a preorder and will not ship until late March. To keep things clear, please do not check out with any additional items.
* Sheldon's spelling forever!!
New Bike Day for Will!
📸 Harry
New Bike Saturday for Jeff
📸 Harry
January 30: We're donating 50% of today's retail sales to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.
TBT / Ten Years Ago / January 29, 2016: Will snapping the visiting Portland, Oregon RBW dealer's Toyota Previa bike hauler in the HQ parking lot.
📸 John
Another one from our revived Flickr account: Mark + Atlantis, circa 2001. 📸 Grant
📝 James, thank you for scanning these old prints! - JB
Flickr 🔗🌲👆🥸
#voigtländer #voigtlanderbessal
From Will's 1.23.2026 Email Update: Robert says, "Good fender clearance!"
Read the rest (Lots more Sam pics, too.)
LinkTree in our profile. 🔗🌲👆🥸
"Next time we do it, I'll bring my Charlie, which still isn't assembled, but I've been having a good time plotting out the parts in the meantime. I laid out what I have on a table earlier today, just for fun..."
A snippet from Will's 01.23.2026 Email Update.
LinkTree in our profile.
