"I’m going to ride and be satisfied ".... famous last words that I say every few years.
tailwinds, shoji On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 11:38:36 PM UTC-4, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > Doug, > > Well. You’re not wrong. But you know what else? I blame all of you. I used > to be a perfectly reasonable person (with a disconcerting affinity for > sparkle), but now look at how things have gotten. I was tickled to swap my > Walmart Special for a Betty Foy and I was happy for so many years. But then > I started haunting this place and hearing about long chainstays and higher > bars and fancy wheels and now I have Rainbow Brite wheels that cost more > than my bike. > > I regret nothing. Those wheels are so 🤩. > > But, mark my words, after this bike and the mixte (which I’m still hoping > isn’t a ‘Pus) I’m swearing off improvements. I’m going to ride and be > satisfied and immune to all the bike charms. For at least 10 years... > > Hold me to this, > Leah > Sent from my iPad > > On May 20, 2020, at 8:28 PM, dougP <doug...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > Welcome to the rabbit hole of bike nerdery. I suspected a developing case > when you gave up the Best Bicycle in the Whole World (did I get that > right?) for the Clementine. > > dougP > > On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 6:41:10 PM UTC-7, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! > wrote: >> >> Friends, >> >> I have one bike to ride. It’s a Clementine with mostly stock parts, and >> it’s heavy. >> >> I love it. >> >> I have been riding nearly every day and I’ve got 997.9 miles on it for >> 2020! The hills here are brutal, and the temps are approaching triple >> digits. So, I want to ride at night, and I want to get up the hills more >> easily. James and Candice at Analog Cycles in Vermont have showcased their >> beautiful work on Instagram, and I’ve long been an admirer. #RivSister >> Roberta knows them and had planned to have them do similar work on her >> Appaloosa (I’m sure she’ll delight us with her story here when the time >> comes), and because we girls tend to stick together, I got in touch with >> Analog. Dyno lighting and lighter wheels with tubeless tires were what was >> decided. >> >> So, here’s one photo from Analog that can’t do these wheels one whit of >> justice; the wheels arrived today and they are showstoppers in real life. I >> am going to follow up right after this post with a video (2nd post >> necessary for video to work, I don’t know why) that you can access if you >> choose to download it. The video is the only way to really capture any of >> the beauty in these wheels. I told them to go wild with color, and they >> did. I think the bold colors and patterns capture the zany nature of a >> Clem. >> >> Don’t ask me what all the details are, who KNOWS, this is me you’re >> talking to. I do know I got tubeless Gravel Kings (Evan Elliot, I think >> these were your suggestion months ago), something about machined sidewalls, >> Shutter Precision/Edelux II, Son rear light. Oh, enough, what really >> matters here is there are COLORED SPOKE NIPPLES AND VALVE STEMS. And guess >> what they do? They fade into other colors because Analog is a straight-up >> master of color. These wheels are a lot, which is saying something for a >> woman whose favorite color is sparkle. I LOVE them. More is more. Too much >> is enough. And so on... >> >> Tomorrow, I’m taking my bike in for a list of stuff I’m having done to >> it, and I really hope the mechanics know how to set up dyno lighting - I’ve >> been burned by Vegas bike shops before, and this is a new shop for me. See >> the Wiggly Fender thread. 🙄 >> >> More later when everything is on the bike and I have gotten to ride it. >> >> Thanks for looking, this is made even more fun in the presence of like >> minds. >> Leah >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/dfbF8nhu8Og/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4b062b74-c0bb-4004-b998-2cbfd56c051a%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/4b062b74-c0bb-4004-b998-2cbfd56c051a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/50d55cd7-0caf-404a-812c-befb7a32c8c7%40googlegroups.com.
