Nice! I like the San Marcos and Nobilette, too. Happy riding, shoji
On Friday, May 2, 2014 10:35:20 AM UTC-4, Mark Reimer wrote: > > Hi all! Thought I'd give a quick introduction and share some photos of my > first Riv - a used Atlantis which I just picked up two days ago! > > I've been following the group conversations for about the past year, with > limited participation but much enjoyment. I feel as if I know half the > people personally by now. > > I've been saving my pennies for a Rivendell for a long time. I am located > in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and in June my wife and I are heading to > California for 12 days, capping the trip off with a visit to the Riv > Headquarters. I had intended to pickup a new Sam Hillborne, but last week a > 58cm Atlantis popped up online and it was just too good to pass up. It has > its fair share of paint scratches, but no dings or dents. I figure the > first owner did me a favour and now I can shred it hard and not fret about > putting the first scratch in the paint! > > I have most of the parts en route, and I'll be building the wheels up in a > week or so (SONdelux front, Phil Wood rear hubs, both disc so I can use > them for mountain biking as well), Velocity Dyad's (36 hole), Nitto Noodle > bar, Technomic stem, some oldschool Avid Tri-Align brakes, Brooks b17 > special, MKS Lambda pedals. I'm still hunting for some used White > Industries mountain cranks, bar-end 10 speed shifters and derailleurs. I'll > share the full build once it's completed! > > Here are a few teasers, as well as some photos I shot for a local shop of > a beautiful Mark Nobilette they built up. Happy Friday! (tried to post them > into the body of this, but for whatever reason the insert image widget > didn't like my links. Maybe later) > > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldisours/14106216943/player/ > https://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldisours/14086143615/player/ > https://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldisours/14086625934/player/ > https://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldisours/13899549558/player/ > https://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldisours/14083185432/player/ > https://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldisours/13899567150/player/ > > More photos of the Riv, the Nobilette, and general cycling/riding stuff at > www.markreimer.ca if you care. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
