Re: [RBW] My Heron build
I remember that you wrote about this in your blog, and I thought it was a very heartwarming story at the time. I think your wife is a really lucky lady and the Heron is not a bad consolation prize...and you also wrote a very nice piece about your all-rounder, which I hope is still going strong. Ryan in Winnipeg On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:41:20 PM UTC-5, Tim McNamara wrote: Enjoy! I bought my wife a Heron Road frame and built it up, surprising (even shocking) her for Christmas many moons ago. Maybe 18 years or something. The Heron replaced her 1993 XO-1 when it got run over while locked to a sign outside her workplace (a tragedy that still breaks my heart a little). It is a wonderful bike, actually the lightest bike in the house, and frequently when she is out for a ride some other cyclist will give her big props for it. The Heron was just a great bike and I am sad they didn’t stick around longer, despite a lot of noble efforts but the various owners of the project. People say “it’s the design, not the material” but IMHO 531 *is* magic. Best frame tubing ever. Thanks Grant and Ted, that bike has given my wife a lot of happy miles and made me into a really big hero one Christmas. I’m actually choking up (over both the demise of the XO-1 and her joy over the Heron). -- 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/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] My Heron build
Nice-a! (Is that ... could it be ... no, but ... is that a flipped Moustache bar) On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Joe Bernard joerem...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still pretty lame at posting pics, but here's an attempt. I picked up this Rive-designed, Waterford-built early Heron Road from Ted Durant here a while back. He's mentioned that Reynolds 531 is magic in a frame tube, and I believe it..this baby floats down the road and soars up hills like a balloon! Designed for 700c, converted to 650b. The BB is probably too low, but I'm pretty good about keeping the inside pedal up through corners, so not a problem. Mid-90's 8-speed XT rear derailer, late-80's Dura-Ace front. Ritchey 50-34 cranks with some kinda Octalink BB. Phil hubs, IRD 7-speed freewheel, Velocity Synergy 36-hole rims, SOMA New Xpress 38mm tires. Vintage Simplex post, Brooks B68(?) saddle. Albatross CrMo bars, Riv Miesha cork grips, Silver shifters, Suntour XC Expert (Dia-Compe) levers, V-O quill converter topped with some cheap generic threadless 12cm stem..might be a Dimension. I figured I would eventually get a Nitto in there, but I'm already used to this look now, so maybe not. Silver long-reach brakes. Riv Hoop saddlebag support. Carradice bag..I think it's a Barley, could be a Pendle. Sackville XS small seatbag used as a front. I'm amused that I mixed two brands of bags and put one on the wrong end, and I still ended up looking like a bagmatcher :) This bike is the toppermost of the poppermost..thanks for looking. Joe soon to be seen with David Banzer's SOMA Porteur rack Bernard Vallejo, CA. -- 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/d/optout. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis * * Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * Nothing outside you can give you any place, he said. You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you? he cried. Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood * -- 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/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] My Heron build
Very, very nice! On Wednesday, June 18, 2014, Joe Bernard joerem...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still pretty lame at posting pics, but here's an attempt. I picked up this Rive-designed, Waterford-built early Heron Road from Ted Durant here a while back. He's mentioned that Reynolds 531 is magic in a frame tube, and I believe it..this baby floats down the road and soars up hills like a balloon! Designed for 700c, converted to 650b. The BB is probably too low, but I'm pretty good about keeping the inside pedal up through corners, so not a problem. Mid-90's 8-speed XT rear derailer, late-80's Dura-Ace front. Ritchey 50-34 cranks with some kinda Octalink BB. Phil hubs, IRD 7-speed freewheel, Velocity Synergy 36-hole rims, SOMA New Xpress 38mm tires. Vintage Simplex post, Brooks B68(?) saddle. Albatross CrMo bars, Riv Miesha cork grips, Silver shifters, Suntour XC Expert (Dia-Compe) levers, V-O quill converter topped with some cheap generic threadless 12cm stem..might be a Dimension. I figured I would eventually get a Nitto in there, but I'm already used to this look now, so maybe not. Silver long-reach brakes. Riv Hoop saddlebag support. Carradice bag..I think it's a Barley, could be a Pendle. Sackville XS small seatbag used as a front. I'm amused that I mixed two brands of bags and put one on the wrong end, and I still ended up looking like a bagmatcher :) This bike is the toppermost of the poppermost..thanks for looking. Joe soon to be seen with David Banzer's SOMA Porteur rack Bernard Vallejo, CA. -- 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 javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com'); . To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] My Heron build
Wow. It's hard to beat a Heron Road converted to 650B. On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Joe Bernard wrote: I'm still pretty lame at posting pics, but here's an attempt. I picked up this Rive-designed, Waterford-built early Heron Road from Ted Durant here a while back. He's mentioned that Reynolds 531 is magic in a frame tube, and I believe it..this baby floats down the road and soars up hills like a balloon! Designed for 700c, converted to 650b. The BB is probably too low, but I'm pretty good about keeping the inside pedal up through corners, so not a problem. Mid-90's 8-speed XT rear derailer, late-80's Dura-Ace front. Ritchey 50-34 cranks with some kinda Octalink BB. Phil hubs, IRD 7-speed freewheel, Velocity Synergy 36-hole rims, SOMA New Xpress 38mm tires. Vintage Simplex post, Brooks B68(?) saddle. Albatross CrMo bars, Riv Miesha cork grips, Silver shifters, Suntour XC Expert (Dia-Compe) levers, V-O quill converter topped with some cheap generic threadless 12cm stem..might be a Dimension. I figured I would eventually get a Nitto in there, but I'm already used to this look now, so maybe not. Silver long-reach brakes. Riv Hoop saddlebag support. Carradice bag..I think it's a Barley, could be a Pendle. Sackville XS small seatbag used as a front. I'm amused that I mixed two brands of bags and put one on the wrong end, and I still ended up looking like a bagmatcher :) This bike is the toppermost of the poppermost..thanks for looking. Joe soon to be seen with David Banzer's SOMA Porteur rack Bernard Vallejo, CA. -- 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/d/optout. pic-r-1402538088036.jpg James Warren jimcwar...@earthlink.net - 700x55 -- 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/d/optout.
[RBW] My Heron build
I am really pleased to see that frame getting the love it deserves! Ted Durant -- 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/d/optout.
[RBW] My Heron build
Brilliant and beautiful. I especially appreciate that build. It is similar to my Hilsen 650b set-up that serves my needs quite well. I hope you enjoy it! Chris Johnson Sanger, Texas -- 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/d/optout.
Re: [RBW] My Heron build
Enjoy! I bought my wife a Heron Road frame and built it up, surprising (even shocking) her for Christmas many moons ago. Maybe 18 years or something. The Heron replaced her 1993 XO-1 when it got run over while locked to a sign outside her workplace (a tragedy that still breaks my heart a little). It is a wonderful bike, actually the lightest bike in the house, and frequently when she is out for a ride some other cyclist will give her big props for it. The Heron was just a great bike and I am sad they didn't stick around longer, despite a lot of noble efforts but the various owners of the project. People say it's the design, not the material but IMHO 531 *is* magic. Best frame tubing ever. Thanks Grant and Ted, that bike has given my wife a lot of happy miles and made me into a really big hero one Christmas. I'm actually choking up (over both the demise of the XO-1 and her joy over the Heron). -- 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/d/optout.
