{"id":152117,"date":"2024-06-11T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=global&p=152117"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:51:22","slug":"sam-hillborne-2024-demo-bike-check","status":"publish","type":"global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/global\/sam-hillborne-2024-demo-bike-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hillborne 2024 (demo bike check)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi guys, It’s Kari from Blue Lug Yoyogi Park.<\/p>\n

I guess you can tell what this blog is about from the title.<\/p>\n

The Sam Hillborne from Rivendell Bicycle Works from Walnut Creek has arrived.<\/p>\n

They now have a new color available. How cool is that?<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to build a demo bike for Blue Lug Yoyogi park, so I will be writing about the bike.<\/p>\n

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Let’s get into the frame colors first.<\/p>\n

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Periwinkle, the new color.<\/p>\n

A periwinkle is a name of a flower, in case you didn’t know.<\/p>\n

A flower inspired frame color sounds very lovely.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what the actual flower looks like.<\/p>\n

In Japan, we have this thing called a “Hanakotoba”, which means language of flowers.<\/p>\n

It is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.<\/p>\n

Basically, we have a specific word that represent each flowers.<\/p>\n

The Hanakotoba for Periwinkles are “A happy memory” , “A eternal friendship” and more.<\/p>\n

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The new batch of Sam Hillborne is also available in Bronzey Green.<\/p>\n

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This color was used for the Cheviot and the first Gus Boots Wilsen we ever got.<\/p>\n

Both colors are beautiful. I hope this doesn’t give you a tough time deciding which frame color to get.<\/p>\n

There is a minor change to the frame from this batch.<\/p>\n

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The new Sam has down tube shift bosses, which is huge in my opinion.<\/p>\n

You can now adjust the inner cables easily or have a W lever set up…and so on. My imagination don’t stop!<\/p>\n

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Ok, so let’s go through the demo bike I built.<\/p>\n

\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

*Rivendell* Sam hillborne \/ \u201cperiwinkle\u201d size54<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The theme of this bike is “Everyday Hillborne”<\/p>\n

I wanted someone to ride this bike as their first bike.<\/p>\n

\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some descriptions of the Sam from the RBW website.<\/p>\n

“The Sam is a versatile road and light trail bike. Everything that makes it a great touring bike also makes it a great commuter, camper or all-rounder. The Sam is equally a great bike for a carrying food and camping gear and clothing around.”<\/b><\/p>\n

It’s a bike that you can ride daily, but also a bike that you can go try out riding gravel, or even go on a tour if you get interested in that sort of stuff. I thought this practicality is what makes Sam the OG all-rounder, when I was building this bike.<\/p>\n

Basically, this bike is more capable, more than you imagine.<\/p>\n

\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

Albastache bars. One of my highly recommended Nitto bar.<\/p>\n

I’ve had it on my Homer Hilsen, which I ride everyday for a while and I never got tired of it.<\/p>\n

When I say “never get tired”, I mean this since the handlebar is a multi-position bar.<\/p>\n

This bar is not a chiller sweepy bar. It’s actually more of a forward position bar with a slight uprightness, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n

Oh, and most importantly, they look sick.<\/p>\n

\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

“ALL WEATHER: Easily fendered. Can the “gravel bike” you’re considering fit fenders? How about racks?”<\/b><\/h4>\n

Yes, what they (Riv) said. Full fender-ready, a must for an “Everyday Bike”.<\/p>\n

I want people to ride in the rain too, or more like, I want people to enjoy riding in the rain. A bike you ride everyday should be comfortable and stress free.<\/p>\n

It’s still got plenty of tire clearance even with fenders, which is a huge deal in my opinion. The tires I chose for this build are none other than Ultradynamico tires. Rose for front, Cava for rear.<\/p>\n

\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a>\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

One more shot of the whole bike.<\/p>\n

I still have a ton of stuff I want to write, but don’t want this post to be too long, so I’m cutting it here.<\/p>\n

I will say though, the Sam feels sturdier than the Homer, but still feels supple and also very responsive. I really liked how it rides.<\/p>\n

The 2024 Sam Hillborne frame will go live on the webshop on June 24th (Mon) at 7:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"*RIVENDELL*<\/a><\/p>\n

Bye!<\/p>\n

Kari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":151935,"template":"","tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":151935,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1980,"height":1320,"file":"2024\/06\/53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o.jpg","filesize":300904,"sizes":{"medium":{"file":"53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-1280x853.jpg","width":1280,"height":853,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":152724,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-1280x853.jpg"},"large":{"file":"53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-1720x1147.jpg","width":1720,"height":1147,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":235451,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-1720x1147.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-768x512.jpg","width":768,"height":512,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":70742,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-768x512.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-1536x1024.jpg","width":1536,"height":1024,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":198734,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-1536x1024.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-800x600.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":82946,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-800x600.jpg"},"yarpp-thumbnail":{"file":"53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-120x120.jpg","width":120,"height":120,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":5658,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o-120x120.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":151520,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/53751064027_bd2e4b24d0_o.jpg"},"acf":{"online-store-search-keywords":"","search-result-sort-order":"price","search-result-sort-by":"desc","stockSortFlg":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global\/152117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/global"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}