Appaloosa Frameset -

Name: Appaloosa Frameset -
Brand: Rivendell Bicycle Works
SKU: f-appa20-1
Price: 1750.0 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

$1,750.00 USD

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Size 46cm 51cm 54cm 57cm 60cm

Color Mermaid Orange

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I (Grant) used to say this was my favorite bike of all time, but right now it’s tied with a few others--the new Atlantis being the most obvious. I don’t think a better-riding bike is possible. I know I can't design one.

There are three new sizes, just arbitrary changes. A 60cm, with a single top tube. The 58 with double top tubes went to a 57, single top tube. The 55, which never had a second top tube, is now a 54. None of the other dimensions on either bike changed. The down tubes got about two-thirds of an ounce lighter, by shortening the butt. It’s still plenty long. These Appaloosas are slightly lighter, but that’s not an upgrade, just a fact. And they still are super stout, not wimpy.

We'll help you pick the perfect parts for your bike, and you'll get the only bike you'll ever want to ride. We can assemble it custom and perfect for you. You don't need to know anything except the kind of riding you do and answer a few easy preference questions. This is a bike you'll ride before any other.

The colors are MERMAID or ORANGE.

Minimum PBH by size:

46cm (76)

51cm (81)

54cm (84)

57cm (88)

60cm (91)

Those PBH’s assume you’ll be riding 2-inch tires.

Here’s what my everyday Appaloosa looks like. I just put on the front pan-wahs, for shopping and travel. The bike is PERFECT. Somebody who doesn’t know how to ride a bike could ride it. It is, I’d say, impossible to not love this bike. Mine’s Silver, Will’s is Silver, Corey’s is Silver…but yours can’t be. Instead of blue and silver, the colors are now mermaid and orange. It was such a nice silver, too, and that’ll show up again on the Charlie someday, but the orange is the best orange ever, on any bike, so no loss in color. If I were starting over, I’d probably get a mermaid one, but maybe an orange. I got my silver because Silvers weren’t selling, and it’s a good silver.

Clearance for 54mm tires. Mine have about 43mm tires on them, and I’ve ridden it this way on the second rockiest road on Mt. Tamalpais, and down Repack, too. If you don’t have any of our bikes and you kind of want to get one, the Appaloosa is as good a choice as any. I’d put 50mm tires on it, some kind of roadish or combo tread.

Get one of the Acera rear derailers IF you’re shifting in friction. Otherwise, a Deore, which indexes 9sp, and we have those shifters, too. For bars, Bosco, Billie, Albatross, Choco, or if you want drops, go with a Noodle and a 5-6mm Tallux stem. Anybody here can help you with that. This is a bike you will always love. I don’t believe it is possible to not love this bike. Everything that’s good about our bikes is in this one.