Hello RBWOB, I offer for sale my well loved Heron Road Touring in size 57cm. This is a wonderful riding bike that I’ve actually bought twice. I regretted selling it the first time and luckily bought it back. It’s currently not getting the use it deserves and if I’m being honest with myself it’s not perfectly sized for me so I’m letting it go. The feel of this bike is livelier than my double TT Sam, but not as quick as a Romulus. I will say that I used to live on a ridge in the Seattle area with a short 18% grade that I commuted up daily. This bike I always felt would climb in a higher gear than any other bike I commuted on. If memory serves right the tubing is Reynolds 531. Herons were designed by Grant Peterson and built in Wisconsin by Waterford. Bike is located in northwest Indiana an hour outside of Chicago. Asking $1200. I’ll cover packing by my lbs, you pay actual shipping.
This bike is in used but not abused condition. It has some scratches in the paint and isn’t perfect but still looks very nice. There is a dent in the area of the right down tube shifter boss. Is was damaged during shipping. It doesn’t affect the ride that I can tell and it being steel I’d feel confident leaving it this way for the remainder of its life. However I contacted Waterford about a repair and received this reply from Richard Schwinn himself: Worst case scenario: Replace downtube/bosses: $250 Repaint: $700. If we can pull out the dent, replace the boss and touch up: Figure $4-500. Unfortunately we'll need to replace the decals because the blend will overlap. If you repaint, it's your opportunity to try a new color (though we have the old one as well. Thanks Richard Ok, on to the build. VO Grand Cru 46cm handlebars Nitro stem 10cm Dia comp brake levers Shimano cantis Nitro seatpost Selle Anatomica saddle Brooks leather bar tape ( been rewrapped a few times but still has life) Sugino triple 172.5 mm Shimano Tiagra front derailleur Shimano XTR rear 9spd cassette Shimano shifters Velocity rims with Schmidt dynamo hub and XTR rear Honjo 35mm fenders Schwalbe Marathons 32mm Frame is 57cm C-C top tube and 58 C-C down tube. More info: http://www.heronbicycles.com/index.html Thanks for looking! Aaron -- 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/ee676439-ed54-420a-bef7-a44524a185can%40googlegroups.com.
