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Rivendell: Against the Wind

Rivendell Bicycle Works around 2006: Grant Petersen's small maker of practical lugged bicycles, at odds with the industry and loved and scorned for it.

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  1. Bridgestone: Beyond the Dream

    …design by the early 1980s, further accelerated when the beloved Grant Petersen - now of Rivendell Bicycle Works - joined the company as BridgestoneUSA marketing boss. While Petersen acknowledges learning much of his…

    HistoryNamed four times

  2. Cycles Alex Singer: Ageless Grace

    …rear derailleur and freewheel cluster threaded amid the spokes. Indeed, companies like Rivendell and Kogswell are now applying Singer-like production methods to bikes available at less breathtaking prices than the…

    HistoryNamed three times

  3. Gitane: The Dark-Eyed Wanderer

    …clever ones use names that associate the bicycle with a pleasant image -- Vanilla, Ibis, Rivendell -- and these keep company with Gitane. But none has chosen so perfect a name for the most perfect machine ever to…

    HistoryNamed once

  4. Bridgestone History: A Timeline of Key Corporate and Bicycle Events

    …tubing decals and frame-geometry charts. 1984 · Corporate · Grant Petersen, later of Rivendell Bicycle Works, joins Bridgestone as BridgestoneUSA marketing boss, entering a company that already had thirty-five…

    TimelineNamed once

  5. Goëland: Soaring To Lofty Heights

    …Bicycle Quarterly Classic Rendezvous Mail List Posting Velostuf Reynolds USA Ebykr Rivendell Article Vanilla Bicycles Kogswell Cycles French Cyclotouring Federation Ebykr Idéale Article Decathlon France…

    HistoryNamed once

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