My Rivian nightmare…

[MountainBikeDude]

After three long years of waiting, we finally took delivery a week ago! She’s a beaut, but we had a few minor issues (transporter damage) to sort out, so the truck was back in the shop Thursday/Friday.

This weekend was our first real outing with the truck in ship shape and some activities planned! The wife, dog, and I headed over to Leavenworth and Wenatchee for a quiet weekend away with some backpacking and mountain biking.

I absolutely love everything about the truck, except for this one thing…

I took a spill mountain biking on Saturday and broke my right ankle. Jury is out on whether I need surgery, but in any case I won’t be driving for 2-3 months

It’s just sitting there, taunting me…

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[crashmtb]

Haha, what truly matters! Seems ok, I rode it out the last mile or so from the crash. Broke my new Peak Design phone mount though - I gotta say I’m impressed, the mount never let go of the phone even after the aluminum arm sheared clean through!

Sage Hills in Wenatchee. Nothing hardcore - still haven’t quite figured out how I went down.

Yikes! Hope he has a swifter recovery. At least if it was my wrists I’d have an excuse for sick leave

Is your bike ok??

 

[kylealden]

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Close! Giant Trance X 29 2.

Is your bike ok??

Seems ok!

 

[crashmtb]

Close! Giant Trance X 29 2.

Seems ok!

good!

you‘ll be driving with your left foot in no time

 

[MountainBikeDude]

Close! Giant Trance X 29 2.

Seems ok!

Bah... hahaha

I have a Reign SX 27.5. It had been stolen and parted out prior to me recovering the frame. So gave me an excuse to update $$$$ the components.

Win Win!.... I think

 

[moosehead]

Well played OP. Love the sheit eating grin despite the crutches. Heal fast.

 

[MountainBikeDude]

Close! Giant Trance X 29 2.

Seems ok!

Also, I have a Kuat rack as well currently that will likely make its way onto my Rivian. I'm curious if in the flat position (ready for bikes) can the tail gate go down, or do you have to tilt the rack all the way down.

In both instances I mean without bikes on the rack.

 

[crashmtb]

Also, I have a Kuat rack as well currently that will likely make its way onto my Rivian. I'm curious if in the flat position (ready for bikes) can the tail gate go down, or do you have to tilt the rack all the way down.

In both instances I mean without bikes on the rack.

The tailgate comes down into the license plate area a bit.

 

[thrill]

Seems Rivian (and customers) would be better of delivering these individually in an enclosed car trailer.

 

[crashmtb]

Seems Rivian (and customers) would be better of delivering these individually in an enclosed car trailer.

They could use high-end enclosed transport as done by Porsche and others, like Reliable. Volume wouldn’t be much different than open transporters but costs would be much, much higher.

Rail is pretty safe as the decks aren’t moved around as much to accommodate vehicles of differing heights.

 

[kylealden]

Also, I have a Kuat rack as well currently that will likely make its way onto my Rivian. I'm curious if in the flat position (ready for bikes) can the tail gate go down, or do you have to tilt the rack all the way down.

In both instances I mean without bikes on the rack.

Definitely can't open the tailgate with the Kuat rack in any position, unfortunately. After using it for this trip I'm extra sketched out because it's so easy to hit the tailgate release instead of the tonneau button on the bed rail - I did that twice and caught it just before it hit my nice spiky pedals both times. I'm planning to donate this one to the friend and try 1UP racks over the bed or a fork mount. That should also have slightly better aero (although I was very pleasantly surprised by the aero with the Kuat rack on - geuss-o-meter was right on the money in both Conserve and All Purpose including multiple mountain passes. On my Model 3, two bikes on the Kuat rack cost me 60% range in heavy winds.)

Nice thing about the 1UP rack is I can use it as a single-bike hitch mount too for when I have the RTT loaded. They do stick out a bit over the back when mounted on the bed. But I have a couple months to figure all that out .

(However, I am getting a Condor Overland delivered tomorrow... which I now have to figure out how to get off the ground )

 

[Iwannarivian]

After three long years of waiting, we finally took delivery a week ago! She’s a beaut, but we had a few minor issues (transporter damage) to sort out, so the truck was back in the shop Thursday/Friday.

This weekend was our first real outing with the truck in ship shape and some activities planned! The wife, dog, and I headed over to Leavenworth and Wenatchee for a quiet weekend away with some backpacking and mountain biking.

I absolutely love everything about the truck, except for this one thing…

I took a spill mountain biking on Saturday and broke my right ankle. Jury is out on whether I need surgery, but in any case I won’t be driving for 2-3 months

It’s just sitting there, taunting me…

With one pedal driving it should be real easy to learn to drive with your left foot!

 

[kylealden]

Seems Rivian (and customers) would be better of delivering these individually in an enclosed car trailer.

Honestly I think "buff it out onsite" is probably good enough (mine went from horrifying to perfect in a couple hours). But they should probably work an extra day or two of slack into their delivery schedule for inspections & detailing, and maybe do some extra training/due diligence on final inspections (e.g. must be at least two weekdays before scheduled delivery date...). I was very happy to take delivery of an imperfect truck with an IOU rather than wait, but that's probably not the right model at scale.

 

[FutureTruck]

As someone who broke their leg skiing in February, and has spent the last 11 weeks with weight off of it, I feel for you man. Hey, I can look on the bright side, at least I don't have a Rivian to not be able to drive.

 

[MountainBikeDude]

Definitely can't open the tailgate with the Kuat rack in any position, unfortunately. After using it for this trip I'm extra sketched out because it's so easy to hit the tailgate release instead of the tonneau button on the bed rail - I did that twice and caught it just before it hit my nice spiky pedals both times. I'm planning to donate this one to the friend and try 1UP racks over the bed or a fork mount. That should also have slightly better aero (although I was very pleasantly surprised by the aero with the Kuat rack on - geuss-o-meter was right on the money in both Conserve and All Purpose including multiple mountain passes. On my Model 3, two bikes on the Kuat rack cost me 60% range in heavy winds.)

Nice thing about the 1UP rack is I can use it as a single-bike hitch mount too for when I have the RTT loaded. They do stick out a bit over the back when mounted on the bed. But I have a couple months to figure all that out .

(However, I am getting a Condor Overland delivered tomorrow... which I now have to figure out how to get off the ground )

That blows. I love the sturdyness of my kuat rack and was hoping it would be compatible with the tail gate. Does make me wonder if the R1S's little fold down "tail gate" is short enough that it won't hit.

Very surprising the range effect on the Model 3, but considering it's range is more based on the vehicle being "slippery" not entirely unexpected.

This also brings up a bit of a frustration, or more of a personal problem of mine. If I had a (Canadian pricing btw) 60k Tacoma I wouldn't think twice about getting a pad for the tail gate and draping my mountain bike over it, while I bomb down a dirt road. Enter the 116k Max pack Rivian. I'm afraid I'll be overly precious with it to the point where I agonize over potential scuffs from the pad alone rubbing the truck let alone a fork bouncing into it when I hit a pot hole.

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