Fabulous Fort Lee!!!!!! Go Bridgemen!!! Er, Bridgepeople!!!! Paul "Formerly From Fort Lee" Brodek Hillsdale, NJ USA
On Monday, January 31, 2022 at 9:28:48 AM UTC-5 Patch T wrote: > Hi Bunch, > > *tl:dr - Kyle's Quickbeam was too big. Mine was maybe too small. We > swapped. Photos.* > > I've ridden an orange Quickbeam for about 5 years. It's seen all sorts of > builds, all sorts of rides, camping trips, commutes; the slow end of a > toxic relationship and the start of a healthy one, an engagement, a > cross-country move (again), a pandemic a career change... As you can > imagine, I'm in love with the bike. My first and only Rivendell (so far) > but I don't really feel the itch for another. Ok maybe a Mountain Mixte. Or > Roadeo. Or Saluki, maybe. I digress. > > I sold a few frames so I could purchase it, used, from an angel named John > who even let me pay in installments. I've learned a lot about bikes and > about wrenching, but also about sizing in the short 5 years since - one > thing I learned is that I should/could ride larger bikes than I thought. > > For a while it was my only bike. Kyle from Golden Saddle Cycles used to > frequently catch me outside riding the QB back when I lived in LA, or when > I visited his shop, and every time he would remind me he'd gladly purchase > that bike when I'm ready to sell. You can imagine my answer - however, he > never let up. > > Fast forward to cruising Instagram late last year, now living in NYC, and > I saw that Kyle finally got his holy grail - a silver Quickbeam - but in a > size too big for him. He thought he'd like to try out a French fit, but it > didn't work out. So I wrote him, thinking his new-to-him 56 would fit me > better (or, differently + nicely) than my beloved 54. He agreed, and we > packed and shipped each other our frames (he had me ship his to Black Magic > Paint!) > > I've spent the past month rebuilding; highlights include a TA crank, shiny > VO fenders, Compass Maes Parallel bar, Swift rando bag, dyno lighting, Paul > brakes (minimoto front, touring rear), 38mm Gravelking slicks. > > Was it worth the $80ish in shipping? Maybe. It's not necessarily *more* > comfortable, but *differently* comfortable. I do like having a shorter > stem, and less seatpost showing than before - that feeling of being *in* > it, rather than *above* it. All in all - with the new color and different > (again) parts - it's kinda like a new bike day, for under $100. > > Patch > BK/NYC > [image: image3 (2).jpeg][image: image1 (16).jpeg] > -- 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/9d87a625-1508-4108-a9d1-b9901b1b92b0n%40googlegroups.com.
