Our winter in SF consists of rain and shorter daylight, so to prepare for winter means making sure the bikes have fenders and adequate lights. Only my Bridgestone RB-1 road bike has no fenders or permanent lights mounted.
I'm preparing a bike to leave in Boston, where we go go every winter for a few weeks and about a month in the summer. It's a Bruce Gordon BLT with S and S couplers, and I brazed down tube shifters onto. It's made up of extra parts laying around. It'll have two sets of tires, 23's for long road rides and fat 35's for the snow and slush. I've got some VO constructeur racks and fat steel fenders for it, but I may not bring them this time, I'm not sure if it'll fit into the S and S bag that I sewed for it, made up of cordura and heavyweight 24oz cotton duck. 26x26x10. It actually turned out great!!! My other winter project is rigging up a few of our bikes with lights. My wifes RB-1 needs a rear gen.light for her shimano dynamo wheel and front light. My Ti rando needs a rear gen.light for the Schmidt/B+M. My fixed Bridgestone RB has a shimano B+M front and rear, but I'd like to run the wiring inside the frame and under the fender on the fixed. I'll get it done by December or so. All of the above bikes have fenders. The other thing I have going on is the 1902 Singer 29-2 sewing machine that sews leather. I picked it up for free off of craigslist from a retired shoe maker. I've made a bunch of bags and this thing goes through the thickest leather like its butter. I'm still learning how to use it. My stitches on this are all wonky. It's going to take a long time and a lot of messed up rando bags to figure it out. My last ongoing project is practicing brazing on my fixed. dyanamo wire guides, fender and rack mounts, light tabs, all that stuff, just braze ons. no frame brazing. On Nov 8, 10:10 am, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > As the weather turns cooler, I am starting to dwell on winter > projects. A lot of them are home and family related, but some of them > are Riv-ish, so I thought I would share. In 2010 I pretty much > overhauled my stable of bikes, and now am almost 100% dial ed. So I'm > not due for any complete overhauls. I am building a second > configuration for my Bombadil. It's set up for dedicated dirt riding > now, but I'll be putting together a Campeur kit for it this winter > (drop bars, fenders, racks, bags). So next time a week-plus touring > opportunity presents itself, the Bombadil will be the bike for it. > > What do you do in the winter? Overhaul your favorite bike? Go > through the parts stash and clean house? Start up a new bike > project? Take on a restoration? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
