Thanks everyone for the encouragement! I took a little interlude to go out to a friend's 40th party last, where I KID YOU NOT, we ended up at a Rivendell themed bar. The books/movie, not the bikes, though there was a bike theme at one of the spots along the way.
Reginald, yes, I absolutely love the Sim/MKS Bubbly pedal! In fact, if I'm not using them at this point, there is a good reason. Dan, I sort of have an ideal ride in mind for each bike, so it depends on the ride which I choose. But some of the bikes are pretty specific/niche that they don't get ridden as much. Drew, sorry to get you and Dan confused. Thanks again for starting the other thread! Gonna finish the rest of the bikes real quick and then get out for a ride! On Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 5:53:47 AM UTC-8 Ian A wrote: > +1 Fantastic thread. Keep them coming! > > IanA Kitimat BC > > On Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 4:59:36 AM UTC-8 Dan wrote: > >> Love this thread and every bike in it. Thank you for sharing the >> pictures, along with the little anecdotes about each bike. >> There’s so much to like! The mixed tyres on the Lightning Bolt. The >> wonderful old wine red tape on the Rambo. The pop of the orange bag on the >> Romanceur v1…! >> You obviously have fun making and refining all these builds. >> Is there a bike you gravitate to most, or do you try to ride them all >> equally? >> >> On Saturday, 8 November 2025 at 12:38:49 UTC+11 Ben Miller wrote: >> >>> Over on Drew's wonderfully titled thread Persnicketiness with color >>> combos/Wider aesthetic convo... >>> <https://groups.google.com/g/rbw-owners-bunch/c/cxgHr0NMW-U> I wrote a >>> "dissertation" (Drew's words, not mine, but I like it) on my philosophially >>> on wider aesthetics and bike building. At the end of that post I added a >>> few words about about some of my own builds, but left out photos as I >>> didn't want to clutter up Drew's thread with what was already an overly >>> long post and I also didn't have necessarily have up to date photos for all >>> those bikes. >>> >>> So today I spent a couple of hours photographing my entire stable, plus >>> my wife's Platypus. It's something I've been meaning to do for a while now, >>> and this was a good motivator! That's 11 bikes total, but only 5 Rivs. So >>> be warned, this isn't 100% Riv content! Only 45% Riv content :) But they >>> are all steal bikes and heavily influenced by RBW philosophy. >>> >>> My idea is a create a post for each individual bike on this thread, but >>> here is the link to album if you just want to see the photos without >>> waiting for the rest of the thread. Link to Google Photos Album >>> <https://photos.app.goo.gl/pVnKsNNnRnqYRGrWA> >>> >>> And as I said in my dissertation, I welcome any honest, constructive >>> feedback :) >>> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/01a97e2e-0b90-4671-833b-42ad77fcb021n%40googlegroups.com.
