[CR]Those Extended head tubes on Rivendells...a slightly different slant

From: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:16:20 -0500
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Subject: [CR]Those Extended head tubes on Rivendells...a slightly different slant

We have just about beaten this tired old horse to death, with some folks abhorring those extended head tubes and others, like myself, not being bothered by the look of them and even liking the functionality of them. Joe Stark presented a link to a very nice bike with an extended head tube http://rivendellbicycles.com/html/membership_rivendell39.html http://rivendellbicycles.com/html/membership_rivendell39.html . I'd like to mention something that hasn't yet been touched upon, I believe. Those of us who ride smaller bikes often have the esthetic value if the lugwork around the head tube diminished by the fact that with such a small head tube there usually isn't enough room for the lugs to develop fully to please the eye because this space is "cramped". Note how on this bike the full pattern and flow of the head lugs has been allowed to develop and imagine how it would have looked if they had been compressed into a normal head tube length. Hope I am articulating this well enough, It's a tough thing to explain my thoughts fully, but very small bikes often seem disproportionate and suffer to my eye by the head tube being too short to allow the bikes design to be represented fully. I think this bike does this very nicely.
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi