Originally Posted by
veganbikes
Rodriguez is excellent and very low cost for what they offer. I might also look at Co-Motion if you haven't I have been happy with my Cascadia. Treat it as your forever bike (not that you will not get other bikes N+1 baby)
Had a custom fitting, many years ago, with Co-Motion and did a tour of the facility with one of their tech/engineer folks. Was eye-opening. Very high-quality builds. For a price, can get any reasonable tweak to a frame/fork and have it come out right, once everything's put together. Great shop. These other alternatives seem to have decent geometry right "out of the box," so to speak, and would end up about ~half a full Co-Motion build, so far as I've penciled it out. But, Co-Motion's definitely a possibility. I like what Rodriguez is doing on materials and builds, and the custom-geometry and step-through would yield a good match. But the Riv has great geometry and is the starting point, for me.
Thanks for the reminder about Co-Motion. Long before the Pangea 26 came along, we'd roughly spec'ed out a 26in-wheeled frame set with a longer wheelbase and suitable for wider rims/tires.