I feel like I'm getting better at the Garage sales the more I go to. I think I've been to pretty much every one they've had. This year, I didn't start out in the cheap stuff, but went straight for the far end of the lot. I briefly considered selling all of my other bicycles (and probably some other stuff as well) to buy the light blue 62cm long-stayed HunqaProto recently featured on the Blug, which was sitting there listed for $2200, but decided not to, also decided that a 47cm Hilsen frame would be too small for my wife, and then got down to what I really was after:
-Best score of the day was a Nitto Big Rear rack for my LHT, at $120. It turns out it was one of the prototypes for the new version with lowered pannier rails etc. A Riv employee I didn't recognize informed me that Mark had helped him mount it on the front of his bike, so it lacked the rear mounting hardware; I think I have some extra struts lying around, just need to get some eyebolts. -Got a pair of Black-and-Silver Paul Canti levers, pretty much new looking, for $60. A brake lever I've always admired but never justified since cheapies work so well. Excited to have my second ever Paul component (first is a Gino light mount), not sure which bike they'll go on yet. -Also got a pair of the Silver-branded hubs for $30. I take some credit for revealing their existence to the garage sale throng, as when I found them they were hiding in the bottom of a box under a pile of cheap, 130mm bcd, right side only, Sun Race crankarms. They seem like good quality Taiwanese(?) cartridge bearing cassette hubs, similar to the Velocity-branded ones, but with a milled NDS flange on the rear hub. I'm guessing it's a product they considered offering (I know Grant had larger plans for the "Silver" brand at one point) but decided not to. I asked Miesha if she knew what spacing they were, she went off and asked somebody else, and came back with an answer of "probably 135mm," which was good enough for me. Haven't measured them to confirm. Don't have super specific plans for them yet, but I'll find some. After that I had pretty much what I was looking for, and spent the rest of the time advising friends on their purchases and chatting around with Roger, Dan, Jim M., Dave, Jared, Joe, and Vince. My friend Thomas scored a complete Noodle/lugged stem/Shimano brake levers/Silver barend setup for his San Marcos, as well as a spare set of narrower Noodles, perhaps for his fixed gear. On Saturday, June 7, 2014 11:45:36 AM UTC-7, justin...@gmail.com wrote: > > Plesse let us know whatou got so we can live vicariously thru your > fortunes! > > > -J > -- 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.
