Ah! What a pleasure to see my bike after your build. You did a wonderful job. She look beautiful. That bike took me from San Diego to St. Augustine in 2005. It was absolutely flawless. Outside of that xcountry ride I really never rode it all that much. I got into vintage British bikes. I hope you have many pleasurable years of riding. Thanks for posting.
On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:27:46 PM UTC-7, IanA wrote: > > Towards the end of 2012, I bought a 1998 Double Joe F/F/HS LongLow from a > list member. I bought parts from Germany, the US, from list members (good > people here). I have to say that dealing with the people on this list has > been a pleasure. > > I'm not a talented photographer, and the bicycle does look lovelier in the > steel. This is my first Rivendell and it absolutely rides like a dream - > the stories are all true. I took it on its maiden voyage today and 20km > later was walking through the front door thinking I really must buy an > Atlantis as well. > > I've set it up for Randonneur riding and light-weight touring. It will > comfortably handle true 35mm tires with the fenders, so I think it offers > lots of versatility. I have it as an 8 speed (12-28) to the XD triple > (28/38/48) and that seems to be a good fit for this bike. > > It's my first ground-up build. The headset was already pressed in, but I > built the wheels myself for this bicycle (first time) and assembled > everything either in my living-room or when I needed to at the local > bicycle co-op. It's taken me a few months as I was working too much, but > it's good to finish the build finally. I kept the build cost as low as > possible, using second-hand or using parts I already owned where I could. > There are also quite a few new parts and I haven't compromised on quality. > Overall, I'm very happy with the way it has turned out. > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
