Bikerumor's Cycling Lifestyle Editor shares his experience building and riding his Rivendell Gus Boots Willsen in this ATB review.
Ok, here it is. A lighthearted, albeit detailed review of the Rivendell Gus Boots Willsen and the brands that contributed to the build. This bike defies categories and is hard to label. Grant Petersen prefers to call it a “Hillibike”. But, really for all intents and purposes, it’s an all-terrain bicycle .
The bikes were light and nicely built and didn’t follow the “trends” of the time. Grant was spec’ing the bikes part by part, instead of spec’ing them by “gruppo” like the other brands. This gave the bikes a more “custom built” feel to the line. The Gus would be Rivendell’s equivalent of a mountain bike, although Grant prefers to call them Hillibikes, leaving the other nomenclature for the rest of the mainstream bike brands.With the heart of an early mountain bike, the Gus is the only bike in Rivendell’s line that came with a threadless fork and a 1 1/8″ headtube. I was drawn to everything about this bike, including the non-sensical name. I couldn’t find anything about why Grant would name a bike Gus Boots Willsen.
Gus was made with a tube set that sports slightly larger diameter tubes with slightly thicker tube walls than the other Rivendell bikes in the line. These few differences, make it worthy of riding it on really rough terrain. Which I do. After a few weeks, I was informed the available frame was gone. Will told me he did find a lone 57cm from last year’s model hidden in storage, but couldn’t find the matching fork.
As it turns out, I love the orange fork on my Gus, it differentiates it from all others. It adds to the bike’s already one-of-a-kind uniqueness. I love it, and I am forever appreciative of the effort, thanks Will!The pictures of this frame color do it zero justice. Trust me, it is an absolutely beautiful Dark Moss Green that takes on a different life in the sunlight. More on this later. On to the build.Velocity USA is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and consists of 14 year-round employees.
The Gus lends itself to be ridden on whatever surface you want and pretty efficiently, I might add. these tires didn’t seem to have any real negatives, even on lengthy rides on paved roads and trails.On another bike, I used to run the beautiful, heat-treated, triple-butted, raw chromoly version of their Persuader Bar in the 800mm width. I liked it a lot as it was compliant and comfortable. It had the right amount of back sweep and a decent rise . But, boy it was heavy .
I wanted the build to be special down to the little details, so I reached out to Velo Orange, as they have what I need when it comes to finishing a special build. They offerFor this build, I turned to them for the unglamorous stuff, like shift and brake cables, but also for something that would set this build off. Something different, that you don’t always see on a build.Wanting the same durable, water and dust-proof dynamo light on the Gus that I ran on the Clem Smith Jr., I requested the.
The XT LinkGlide system was designed to be extremely robust and durable. It has different shift ramps on the 11-50t rear cassette, allowing a completely different and smoother shift point when under load. The ride position is very upright, it’s not for everyone. The sloping top tube is no slope-ier than say a modern enduro bike, it’s just got more of a curve, leading to the conclusion that the slope was just done more elegantly.
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