I blame Tony DeFilippo; he emailed me and several other area Rivendell aficionados last June about a Romulus frameset that his Bike co-op had for sale. The size was either a 59 or 61, and the frame was in rough shape. Rust had pitted the frame in several places. Not being in the market for another bike, I thanked Tony but denied interest. However, I couldn't get the forlorn looking Romulus out of my mind. The words forlorn and Romulus do not belong together! After contacting the co-op manager, I went to see the bike and, of course, bought it! I will digress and divulge that I own two dogs both of whom we adopted from a dog rescue program at a prison.
Not being in the market for a bike, I wondered what to do with the rescued Romulus. The rust concerned me; I sanded down the egregious cancers and called Keven at RBW. We talked through the merits and philosophy of beausage. I like beausage but prefer to be the one who inflicts the wounds. Keven kindly told me whatever I did to safeguard the headbadge as those were irreplaceable now. Slowly I formed a plan to resurrect the Romulus as a 650b commuter. (I had recently unconverted my Riv Road Standard back to 700c. ). I delivered the Romulus to a local automotive body shop for powdercoating in Ford Blue. I feel Romulus would have driven a Ford! I then hand painted the head tube in a cream and reapplied the badge and the new decals Keven sent. If you've read this far you deserve some photos of the project from start to finish: https://flickr.com/photos/86975051@N08/sets/72157654006187120 After a long ride today I am smitten; I am not sure smitten and Romulus go together either. It's a bromance! I didn't know what to expect but I really enjoy the ride! Of course now I have n+1 too many bikes... Thanks for all the inspiration and know-how so generously provided by so many in this group! And thanks Tony! I owe you... Safe cycling wishes, Erl -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
