Hi again! Tom, I measured to the top of my saddle from the center of my crank. I get 84cm. I have it in "relax and hit some stump bumps" mode right now, if I were going for my most efficient race mode setup I would set it a bit higher but nothing over 90cm. I think.
And thanks for the kind words regarding my bike's striking beauty, I'm a skateboarder to so I tend to cover even the most strikingly beautiful things with stickers and dirt. Peter, I live in the lovely portion of N. Brooklyn known as the East Williamsburg Industrial Park, too close to not one but two superfund sites and a stones throw from the Grand St. bike lane. We love it, we moved here from Bushwick where our landlord gave us a nice parting gift so he could more than double the rent on the next folks. Brooklyn's weird like that. Hopefully the new mayor keeps some bikepaths. I just joined up with times up and transportation alternatives hoping my meager donation can make what little bike lobby there is a teeny bit stronger. This is another topic altogether but it seems like the paint they use to delineate the bike paths is not up to snuff, half of the lanes that were painted last year are faded to nothing leaving bikers to ride what they know to be a bikepath with cars driven by ragers completely oblivious to what should clearly be a dedicated lane. Makes me want to get that fancy Nitto spraycan mount set up and get marking. Liesl, YOU GOT MY BIKE!! kidding, congrats on that. My weird question was the repairing of a sidewall question. Not that weird of a question I suppose but one so full of potential heartache that the sane would tend to replace rather than try and frankenstein something together. Brian, if you know anyone who collects vinyl records I've got a lot to sell, I gotta get that hub. And the headlight, and the taillight, and the mount for my phone, and the usb coffee warmer, and... Thanks -Kai On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 2:34:54 PM UTC-4, Kai Vierstra wrote: > > Here's my bike- > http://kaivierstra.blogspot.com/2013/02/bik.html (and web log) > > I'm an artist and educator living in and commuting from Brooklyn, NY > I'm 6'8", 225lb, 40 yrs. My bike's a 2 year old 64cm Sam Hillborne. > It's got an Ultegra hub up front and Deore out back, both stuck to Mavic > 719's with Schwalbe Supreme rubber. > 105 front derailer, Deore back > Sugino 175 cranks 40x26 (11x34 cassette) > Recently switched up a albatross bars for the bosco bullmooses (in > december, a decision made in hopes of winning a giant appaloooosa via the > raffle). Even though I didn't win I'm so happy I made the switch. The > bullmooses are not only awesome, they gave me another closed triangle to > stick a cable through when locking up on the mean streets of NYC (too many > barless bikes out there, gotta protect my vintage XT thumbshifters as best > I can) > > I'm giving a lot of thought to a dyno hub right now, liking the hype > surrounding the SON28, possibly with the Luxos U for the usbism and general > plushness, if only it wasn't all so hellaciously expensive... > > Also thinking about a front rack because of all y'alls love of them. > Probably the mini front because it's got brazed stays and would use the > relatively useless hole in the middle of my forks. > > Also, I pull a trailer a lot, I love it, it rules, it's a surly Ted. I > got it knowing I could haul all sorts of crazy stuff around the city but > also that I might retrofit it with a child seat for my 1.5 year old. That > scared me once the kid was in my arms so I opted for one of those stem > mounted dutch seats instead. It also rules. > > Anyways, I read all this stuff and enjoy hearing about all your > bikescapades. I'm about to post a weird question an thought I should make > the intro first. > > Take care and happy cycling to all of you > -Kai > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
