TBT: Sergio, Will, and Antonio painting the wall opposite our roll-up doors to reduce glare. (April 9, 2025)

From Grant's newest Blahg post. Find it in the LinkTree in our profile. 🔗🌲🥸

From Will's most recent email update. Find it in the LinkTree in our profile. 🔗🌲🥸

📷 WK

Jay R. and Milo, future RBW poster model, at the breakfast table. April, 2010. 📍North of SF.

📷 JAB / Canon PowerShot SD1200 IS

Oldest pic in the (digital) RBW archives*?
🗓️ Twenty-two years ago today: April 5, 2004.

*Think so.

📷 John

New bike Saturday for Derrick!

Photo: Harry

New Bike Saturday for Jeremy!

📷 Harry

From Will's 04.03.2026 Email Update:

"I was slightly nervous about General Use Green. We've used it before on a couple prototype frames and on Rosco Platypuses, but it's been a couple years and I was worried it would be too bright on a bike as flag-shippy as the Appaloosa."

Read the rest:

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Found in the archives (2019).

📷 Best guess is it is Dan by Grant, but it might be Grant by _____. 🤠 John

From Will's most recent Email Update: "These Konica point and shoots are made for Japanese construction workers to document work on site.

They're lightweight, shock resistant, weather and dust sealed, and they're available with 28mm, 35mm and zoom lenses.”

Read the rest: follow the link above.

New Bike Day for James!

📸 Harry

From the Archives (March 2012) Milo and Jenny accidentally dress alike. Milo is now in highschool, and Jenny is a drummer in a rock & roll band.

Dan by Grant. From our recently relaunched, but still a work-in-progress Flickr page.

Link in our profile. 🔗🌲👆🥸

Sergio is getting ready for the OM-1s to finally get trucked over from the port. They had to go through an "intensive exam" at customs.

As soon as they get here we'll start filling these boxes with OM-1 boxes

🍏 We were at the Apple Store today, and spotted a Sackville Bag. Rowan has owned it for four years, and says he "bikes everywhere" all year long here in Portland, Oregon.

📸 Darby

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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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."

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New Bike Day for Aaron

📸 Harry

One of Grant's pics from our Flickr page.

Link in our profile. 🔗🌲👆🥸