Well that is a beautiful bicycle. I have a 98 LongLow, also Double Joe and one can also look at the finish for hours. I would love an All Rounder to go with it though. Don;t sell that bike! You'll never find another like it.
On Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:13:50 PM UTC-7, iamkeith wrote: > > > > On Friday, January 3, 2014 11:02:51 PM UTC-7, IanA wrote: >> >> >> I love seeing these All Rounders pop-up on the list. >> >> Keith: details please! Who was it built by/painted by, what year etc? >> >> Ian A/Canada >>> >>> >>>> > Ian, > > Thanks for the interest. I've been meaning to put together a flickr set > or a submission to Cyclofiend to share some photos, but haven't gotten > around to it. I bought the bike about 14 months ago and was alerted to > it's sale by list member Joe B., in Portland. The original owner was > selling it on consignment at a local bike shop. It had a really odd mix of > parts on it which probably concealed it's potential and beauty to most who > looked at it, so it hadn't sold for a long time. (Some here might remember > it. One of those "before" photos, from the listing, is attached) But MAN > is it beautiful! > > It's a '99, built by Joe Starck and painted by Joe Bell, with the optional > "fancy" window-fill paint option. It also had an optional extra-long top > tube, which means that it fits like it was made for me and my odd long > torso / short legs proportions!! It's listed as "Coleman Green" paint > which, whether it was intentional or not, it is an almost exact match to > the green on the first run of Quickbeams. (But, being a Joe Bell job, > it's much more lustrous). It came with the original purchase > order, including all this information and a note from Grant. The most > beautiful / unique detail on the bike is the bottom bracket area, which was > all gorgeously fillet brazed instead of lugged. Sounds funny, but I can > stare at it for hours.... > > Along with the serendipity of the long top tube, I somehow stumbled into > the perfect moustache bar setup, as I've posted about before. (I had the > bars on my too-small XO-1 that this bike replaced and, though I really > wanted to, could never make peace with them until now.) Unlike that first > attempt and counter to what most people recommend, I went with a LONG stem > (on top of the longer top tube) and raised them "only" to saddle height. I > hear angels singing whenever I grab them. :-) > -- 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.
