Beautiful bike.

Artist/Art Educator/Bicyclist

On Feb 24, 2012, at 5:12 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I tried to sell this bike awhile back, with no buyers at any price:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/twowheelflight/6221225854
> 
> The paint was the weak point. Even an impolite thought would flake off the 
> lovely candy-apple red. Anyway, as I couldn't get anybody to buy the bike, I 
> decided to start over.
> 
> The inspiration was the brown Schwalbe 26x2.15 Big Apple tires that were 
> introduced not long ago. And another brand of bikes we sell, Speedhound, has 
> a color option called "nut green", which is sort of a minty pistachio. 
> Anyway, as my fantasy evolved, I thought black parts might look nice. I 
> settled on a SRAM X.9 2x10 group with a 42/28 crank and a 11-36 10 sp 
> cassette. Hubs are disc-compatible White Industries and Schmidt (disc 
> compatible for maximum versatility in my current and future bike fleet). 
> Anyway, thought this might be of interest here, even though it goes against 
> the polished silver aesthetic preference of many RBW types. In real life, 
> it's not quite as minty as it looks in the photos from my iPhone:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/twowheelflight/6926890797
> 
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