Very nice, David. I too found Noodles unexciting on 2-3 bikes until I put a pair of 42s (judging from the Redwood frame, I am a lot smaller than you) on a Ram with a stem 1 cm longer than my usual 8s, this to accommodate the sweepback, and very, very slight higher to accommodate the deeper drop than my beloved Maes Parallels. What a wonderful setup that is! Not quite as much ramp room, but the hooks at least as comfortable as those on my beloved Maes Parallels, the bar being a wee bit higher and the hooks a wee bit deeper.
Natural, please. Pretty with dark brown straps, reminding me of my excellent though second hand Ruthworks seat wedge, for me the ideal compromise between sufficient capacity and minimal clutter. On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 4:48 PM, David Banzer <daban...@gmail.com> wrote: > I finally got around to finishing my Redwood build. I had initially built > it up with parts swapped directly from an 80s touring frame with low-ish > trail and bars that were 40cm at brake hoods, and with a small front rack > and decaleur for carrying an Acorn tall rando bag. That setup just wasn't > what the frame was intended for. It did ride great with a full rando bag > and I was a little bummed. > > So... I stripped a few parts off and the bike sat it a closet for a month. > Not a bad idea at all. > > When I built it back up I put on 44cm Noodles and went for a rack-less > setup. It rides beautifully now and I've finally enjoyed Noodles (gave them > a few tries in the past and they just didn't fit with the frames I had). > > Combined with my recent dabbling in bag-making, the Redwood really works > great with a small-ish bag up front on the handlebars and a saddle wedge. > > On to the bags... > I found cheaply some scraps of very thick natural cotton duck canvas and > some not as thick yellow cotton duck. I waxed the fabrics myself with a > homemade mixture, then hand stitched them. I hadn't originally intended > them to go on the Redwood, but it worked out nicely. > > Now.. the color poll. > These bags were experiments and I'd change a couple dimensions to > specifically fit the Redwood. > So, which color looks best? > > Natural beige or the yellow? > > Photos here: > http://s821.photobucket.com/user/dabanzer/library/bicycles?sort=3&page=1 > > Would appreciate any thoughts or bagmakers tips. > Thanks, > David > Chicago > > -- > 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. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis ************************************* * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood * -- 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.
