"the high handlebars and the big tires" You really can't say it any better than that!!
That is a great build! I'm surprised how well the technomic stem worked. My first instinct would have been to use a rise stem but the technomic got the bar high enough and it looks so much better than any rise stem. On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 6:25:15 PM UTC-5, drew wrote: > > my dad had a yellow bike-boom fuji when i was growing up. then he had > nothing for years, until he found my old teenage years beach cruiser after > i left home. he has been riding that around, taking it to yosemite, beating > the hell out of it for the last 5 or 6 years. it is encrusted with rust > from the time (and probably many other times i dont know about) he thought > it would be funny to ride it directly into the ocean. it's had a hard life, > and needs to be retired. when i asked him what he likes about it, he said > "the high handlebars and the big tires". > > so i figure that i can kill 3 birds with one stone. get him a gift he will > use, and get a half bike out of my house, that i probably would never get > around to building up, and have something semi respectable to ride when im > over there. > > the frame is a 1984 diamondback apex. tange mtb tubing, made in japan. mix > of lugged and welded joints. it's a cool frame with all sorts of braze-ons > and mounting points. it has an apocalypse-ready spoke holder chainguard, > which is 80% of why this bike is still in my possession. og deerhead > derailleurs, biopace rings, suntour pedals, and a hard stopping, yet > annoying, brake under the chainstay. > > i went as fat as possible with 2.35 fat franks. technomic stem and > albatross bars with the cheapo sunrace thumb shifters. a clem rack on the > back. he will hate the black brooks professional (so ill likely be selling > that soon) but it'll look good when i show the bike to him. > > now i just need to figure out how to convince him that it really should be > locked up, and to not fully submerge it in salt water. also might need to > figure out a rear mounting kickstand so he doesn't just lay this on the > ground everywhere... > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rtYPmaDO9SU/VWT_LMowUaI/AAAAAAAAAUI/yvVs23axPdM/s1600/IMG_1937.JPG> > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xGLQDxgWDBY/VWT_XYdIPPI/AAAAAAAAAUY/t_SLh_TS59U/s1600/IMG_1939.JPG> > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wqWj81Iu2_g/VWT_RkDpzGI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/-nHI_ygcgbc/s1600/IMG_1938.JPG> > > -- 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.
