Originally Posted by rholland1951

Late Tuesday afternoon, I took delivery of the Rivendell Appaloosa that I had bought new from Rivendell, had shipped here, then (after some tinkering on my part), had handed over to Battle Road Bikes for final assembly and inspection. Among other things, the Battle Road guys had taken the measurements on my old LHT, the most dialed-in bike build I have, and did what they could to recapitulate those measurement on this new bike.
When I got it home, night was falling, so I quickly installed a couple of lights and took a short ride on the back streets of East Arlington, a modest and abbreviated New Bike Day observance that was enough to confirm my suspicion that riding this bike will definitely feel different than riding any of the other bikes.
rod