Frame - Clem 2025

Read this first: Our new standard is to send out frames unprepped, but we still offer frame prep as a service. This includes checking rear derailer hanger alignment, installing the fork and properly adjusting the headset, spraying the frame with Boeshield and some other small steps -- use the following links for a full breakdown of what we do if we're shipping you frame or you're picking it up at RBW HQ. Please select the applicable prep option above. Clem Smith Jr. Frameset Clem Smith Jr. is Rivendell’s fat-tire, easy to fender & rack, joyously upright and stable, and more affordable than the rest of our lineup bicycle frame. They're more affordable only because most of the joints are tig-welded instead of lugged. Tigs cut the construction time for each frame down by a lot so the price gets lower. It's a perfectly strong way to make a bicycle, although not as pretty to look at as lugs. Clems still have a strong wide fork crown, napkin-ring reinforcement lugs at the hea