Hey all. Just got my 52 Clem H from RBW after a long, circuitous acquisition process. I went from having a Long Haul Trucker and a 1972 Schwinn Paramount to having two Clems and an Atlantis in a matter of 6 months (HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN???). First I bought a 52 Clem H from Silva Cycles in San Jose, with the intention/stipulation that that would build it out for me, but it took WAY too long for them to build out, so I was able to, after some haggling, buy the frame from them. While I was waiting for it to get built out, I had panicked and thought it might be too small (I'm 5'10" with a PBH of 85.5) or take too long (I was right) and ordered/pre-ordered the 52 Clem L from Psychic Derailleur in IN, and almost had them ship it to me, before I realized that it was still in Walnut Creek, and so was able to pick it up direct from RBW. Of course, while I was waiting for RBW to build out my H, I saw a 56cm 650b Atlantis for sale here on this GG and decided to test-ride it to see what it felt like. BIG MISTAKE. It was and is dreamy. But it was also priced to sell and was okay with $2350 for a basically brand new (200 miles) Atlantis. So, I gues that;s how I ended up with 3. Anyhoo.......While I am loving my L as a daily driver, city cruiser, Short Haul Trucker with a Wald 157 mounted on a Pass and Stow rack, this zippy little Clem H has got me buzzin, and reminiscing about the guy who sold me my first This Bike Seems Small But Damn It Feels Right And Man She Flies bike.....Holland Jones of VeloCity fame/infamy. I still remember getting on one of "his" frames, which I later found out were actuallly Mikkelsen frames, and being astonished at the liveliness of what I was riding. I was hooked and he had a customer for life. He chased innumerable potential customers out of his shop for not knowing what they wanted when they walked in the door. He was a bit of a pedant, or maybe just came across that way. He drank light-roast Peruvian coffee when the trend was Peet's and a roast profile that was more suited to the mines of Chile. He was kind of an asshole, but I enjoyed every minute of it. Wondering if anybody else has memories of him too.
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