Gosh darn it! Yesterday I posted to the 650B list thinking I was posting to iBOB. Apparently I needed another dose of humility and repeated the same SNAFU today, but to the RBW list. Yes, I'm a doofus. Please substitute "RBW'er" for "iBOB" in my post and it'll make more sense.
Thanks for your understanding, -Jack K. On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 1:24:42 PM UTC-5, Jack K wrote: > > I was lucky enough to live in Boston for a few years at the start of this > millennium, so admittedly my intel on shops there may be a bit dated. > Harris Cyclery is an obvious iBOB choice, as every devout iBOB should make > the hajj to Harris at least once in their life. By pure random chance my > first apartment in "Boston" (really West Newton) was a few hundred yards > from Harris -- a sure sign I had made the right housing choice. But, at > least at that time, the shop itself was kind of underwhelming. Certainly a > cool little local shop with some neat stuff (big display of vintage > Raleigh's at that time), but not a life changing experience. I'm surprised > nobody has mentioned Belmont Wheelworks, which is the shop I used to wander > to if I had some time to kill on a Saturday afternoon. This place: > https://www.wheelworks.com/ This is an enormous shop with a huge > selection of bikes of every description -- see attached photo of a small > corner of the showroom. Built up and ready to test ride there was a huge > assortment of the usual mainstream road and MTB bikes, but also tandems, > recumbents, city bikes, touring bikes & gear, the odd unicycle, etc... The > collection of rare and vintage bikes and jerseys on display is worth the > trip in itself. I was heavy into tandems at the time and the most amazing > to me was a 100+ year old donkey-back triple tandem for pacing track races. > There was also a Serotta Ti Legend with the DKS suspension seatstay option > on the wall that I usually ended up staring at for much too long. They also > have a frame builder-in-residence ( > http://www.peter-mooney.com/photos-1-50/) and there was always some of > his work on display, which is probably of more interest to most iBOB's. > > Despite being the most fully stocked bike shop I'd ever been in, Belmont > Wheelworks had a second space just around the corner, not more than a few > hundred feet away, called "the annex" or "Wheelworks Anne" or some such. > It's where dead stock and trade-in bikes went to die. Being a notoriously > frugal iBOB I spent many hours there mining for treasure. That space > doesn't appear to be part of the operation anymore though. As I mentioned, > all my intel on this shop is pretty stale. > > Anyone visited Belmont Wheelworks recently and can report on the state of > things there? > > Cheers, > > -Jack K. > > > On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 11:46:11 AM UTC-5, Nathan Phipps wrote: >> >> Lots depending on the flavor of bob-sh you're looking for. >> >> - Harris Cyclery (Newton) is your pure bob-ish experience - sells and >> stocks Rivs, Gunnars, dynamo stuff, lots of Brooks bits. >> - Broadway Bicycle (Cambridge) school is your new-school Surly, >> Crust, worker-owned bob-ish shop >> - Cambridge Cycles (Cambridge) is another formerly fixie/messenger >> culture-focused turned Crust and bike-packing bob-ish shop >> - Somervelo (Somerville) is your black-metal tinged custom bike >> bob-ish shop >> >> Quite a spectrum - moving from most to least bob-ish from top to bottom >> in my estimation. >> >> I'll be in Boston this weekend myself, but with kid in-tow. I don't >> expect to make it to any shops, but you never know. Enjoy! >> >> >> >> On Monday, December 10, 2018 at 10:02:33 PM UTC-5, Timothy Hurley wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I’m headed to Boston this weekend, are there any bob-ish/riv-y bike >>> shops there? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -T.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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
