What has Rivendell Bicycle works to do with DSLR Exchange?

[Nick R.]

When I click on the link for DSLR exchange in the side bar I get the Rivendell Bicycle works home page?
Here's a screen shot.

[Kim Coxon]

The link works for me. Have you tried typing the address in manually?

Kim

When I click on the link for DSLR exchange in the side bar I get the Rivendell Bicycle works home page?
Here's a screen shot.

[JohnM]

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'.

[back alley]

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

[cbass]

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!

[markinlondon]

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.

[dpetrzelka]

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 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrzelka/131184388/)

-D

[JohnM]

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.

[radiocemetery]

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

[KoNickon]

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.

[Nick R.]

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

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]

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.

-D

[SteveM(PA)]

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]

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

[Nick R.]

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.

[amateriat]

dpetrzelka: also looking forward to seeing more pics of that fixie - looks gorgeous!

Mike: thanks! I still love it after all these years.


- Barrett

[dpetrzelka]

I'll see what I can dig up later this evening--

How about audiophile tube amps-- any of you into single ended triodes? ;)

-D

[amateriat]

I'll see what I can dig up later this evening--

How about audiophile tube amps-- any of you into single ended triodes? ;)

-D
Stop...yourself...now...!

(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]

- 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 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrzelka/278819500/)

There's something about a 35mm rangefinder and some single ended mojo that makes life great.

-D

[Topdog1]

Remeber the Dynaco D70 and PAS-3? That was "rangefinder" stereo equipment. Even when they were new in the '60s.

/Ira

[dpetrzelka]

Ira,

I wasn't around the first time the Dynaco ST-70 was out, but one of my next projects is to modify one to run single ended EL34s (a friend gave me some old Dynaco transformers)--

I guess it fits the theme; my rangefinder camera was born about the same year I was, and tubes have been heading south even before then. (though there seems to be a resurgence in interest in both)

-D

[amateriat]

- 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 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrzelka/278819500/)

There's something about a 35mm rangefinder and some single ended mojo that makes life great.

-D
A 21st-Century Renaissance man, I see. ;)

Tubes, lugs, adjustable framelines..."six degrees of separation" doesn't begin to describe it.


- Barrett

[eric]

Nice Rivendal bike. I prefer my late 70's, early 80's Gios

[visiondr]

I think this kind of thing has been said before, but I think we "Rangefinder heads" are all about quality and the beauty of the process and the end result.

I am appreciating this thread on a number of levels. I too used to be into high end audio gear, mostly British kit. Alas, all was lost in the divorce. I'd also love to ride a Rivendell. Actually came close to buying a Rambouillet from them. But, I had to retreat (at least temporarily) due to the cost of my other hobbies.

Ron

[KoNickon]

Barrett -- lovely Moulton! I've never seen one in the flesh.

My bikes are all pre-index-shifting (with the exception of the Bridgestone MB-2, hence my connection to Grant on the bike side of things). It seems like a good idea, kind of like autofocus, but I'm basically content since the derailleurs are Super Record and Chorus.

[Nick R.]

Okay this is weird. This morning, I get the bike page and my friend gets the camera page. I get the bike page even if I use Curl.

EDIT:
Found it. Bad entry in the University's cache. I don't have admin access to fix it. So it looks like I can't get to DSLRexchange at work. I did find the bike page interesting, though.

[Gabriel M.A.]

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.

Holy Jeebuz...how I long for those days, when you could find the time to build stuff like this. That thing is a beauty. My ear's been dumbed down with CDs.

It's hard to find speakers and headphones with a wide range, too. The salespeople always say "your won't be able to hear those frequencies"; just because they can't it doesn't mean that I can't. And the sampling cut-off. :shudder:

But if I start acquiring this sort of "stuff" my gf will put her foot down :(

::sigh:: back to my mini player...

[markinlondon]

It's hard to find speakers and headphones with a wide range, too. The salespeople always say "your won't be able to hear those frequencies"; just because they can't it doesn't mean that I can't. And the sampling cut-off. :shudder:


You might hear them, Gabriel. My ears are quite blunted by 30+ years of standing in front of much cruder tube amps with names like Vox, Marshall or Fender so I can't any more :( . I quite agree about sampling cut-off though.

[Gabriel M.A.]

You might hear them, Gabriel. My ears are quite blunted by 30+ years of standing in front of much cruder tube amps with names like Vox, Marshall or Fender so I can't any more :( . I quite agree about sampling cut-off though.
After hearing my mom complain about my dad's "mummy sarcophagae" when referring to the speakers at home, I decided that if I wanted good relations with my better half, it'd be best to have discreet, small speakers. So I discovered Bose. :)

But for headphones, I still have some Aiwa headphones that aren't made anymore, and sound spectacular, still after 14+ years, and have a range of about 7dB to I don't remember how high, but it's high. Crisp sounds, rich bass; I can tell the difference right away. Good thing I bought two back then, because one of them got a cable chewed off by a pet.

I am still suffering from having used my headphones a little too loud for too long too many nights. I think this is why they make crappy headphones and speakers readily accessible now.

[tmessenger]

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I've also had a go at bike building. My silver brazed cyclocross bike with Richared Sachs fork, built without a jig.

Tim

[Nick R.]

Nicely done, Tim!

[dpetrzelka]

Tim, Very nice!
Those Richard Sachs lugs are a dream
-D