Thank you for this wonderful article and photos of a well loved bike. I just love seeing people on their bikes. The more the better. Pam, I too use the Cateye Enduro on my bike to track mileage and I will be moving it and resetting it for my new platypus. Ride on! Kate-Trenton, NJ anxiously awaiting her first Riv
On Monday, May 17, 2021 at 5:18:56 AM UTC-4 ascpgh wrote: > Au contraire! > [image: 9E6EEEE9-1B45-45CC-BF99-A54EE3B16529_1_105_c.jpeg] > Riding in the rain is why you have fenders! Dyno hub and LED lights for > the dark of night. > > > Out in the falling rain is one of the top bicycling moments for me. I have > picked parts over the years to become more impervious to riding in the wet, > component by component. Tubeless wheels finished my list, solving the > problem of wet tubes and rim tape from centrifugal entry at the spoke > holes. > [image: Screen Shot 2021-05-17 at 5.16.12 AM.png] > We're pretty average here, our wet is just spread more evenly than other > places where big storms with significant downpours concentrate rainfall. > > Andy Cheatham > Pittsburgh > > On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 9:15:08 PM UTC-4 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > >> In the spirit of our Pam I’m going out and trashing my dream bike in the >> rain! Right now. >> Leah >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On May 16, 2021, at 5:38 PM, David Person <cycli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Grant would be so proud of you. >> >> >> >> On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 3:29:36 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: >> >>> I admire your moral fiber for happily riding your bike without fretting >>> about the paint. I do have a 22-year-old Rivendell, but I've babied it, and >>> only used it very occasionally for errands or commuting (it's the 1999 Joe >>> Starck custom). It had a few minor scuffs, but the Joe Bell paint was >>> largely intact when I had it slightly modified and powdercoated (*nice* >>> powdercoat) >>> in 2018. It does sport a wee dent in the right chainstay where another >>> eejit cyclist, playing paceline with me last year, slammed into me from >>> behind -- bent the wheel but left the frame *almost* unscathed. >>> >>> OTOH, I did commute on another Riv custom with Joe Bell paint for many >>> years, including carriage on bus bike racks -- more but again minor scuffs >>> and scrapes. >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>> >>> -- >> >> 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/R71ZbenRC1E/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/070526d9-d299-4332-bf44-b0ead55e8bcan%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/070526d9-d299-4332-bf44-b0ead55e8bcan%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/90b59b48-d566-4a7c-a104-33288aaf6a4fn%40googlegroups.com.
