Frame - YelloWolley

The Yellowolley (YWY) is an all-purpose pavement bike, with “light trail” capabilities. 

For decades we avoided yellow bikes because I/Grant thought any yellow bike looked like -cheap Nishiki from the ‘70s. Jobst Brandt insisted on yellow because yellow shows cracks sooner than other colors; a bad reason to pick yellow. On drop bar bikes, it’s hard to pick a tape color that looks good. Maybe gray, but anything else looks too contrasty. I wonder how many people I’ve just offended. 

Then in 2024 or so, several of the guys here, even knowing how I felt about yellow, said we need a yellow bike. After my hidden bristling subsided, I looked at yellow differently. It may not be the way you look at it, but this is how we ended up with the YWY — 

Most modern bikes try so hard to look serious, and that means gray, black, charcoal, anthracite, and sometimes white. When they vary, it’s often neon orange or green. They seem to go out of their way to avoid looking pretty or fun. Our normal color palette is great, but it’s one classy color or pretty color after another, with lots of blends and softness. The dark gold and oranges spice it up a little, but YELLOW is in its own category. It seems to anti-bland that I really like it now. It helps to have a warm yellow and nice graphics.

It’ll last as long. Because it’s yellow, it’s even cheerier and less likely to be stolen. The overall vibe is that of an old cheap bike, but it is made to the same standards—design, structural, other—as all Rivendells. It is the best deal we’ve got—whether it’s your first Rivendell or your fifth, you’ll ride it a lot and never wish you were on anything else.

Relevant specs:

• 135mm rear wheel spacing
• 27.2mm seatpost
• 28.6 FD clamp
• 68mm BSA BB shell
• V-brake mounts
• June 2026 geometry here

RIDER + LOAD Limit (guess): 245lb 

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Shipping

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