On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 8:20:17 PM UTC-7, JohnS wrote: > > Hello donavanm, > > Having your bike stolen sucks, hopefully you can get a new set of wheels > soon. Here's a couple of suggestions for you. > > High Option: If you don't come across a QB/S1 any time soon, I would > recommend the 2012 Salsa Casseroll. I bought one last spring when I > couldn't find a QB/S1. The Casseroll was NOS and was available at an > independent bike shop that's about an hour from my house. Great bike, very > similar geometry, feel and features as the QB/S1, canti brakes, chromoly > frame, light touring geometry, semi-horizontal drop outs, lots of braze on > mounting points for racks, fenders, three water bottles and frame peg. The > Riv Little Big Bens fit, fillet brazed not lugged. I paid $700 for the > frame, fork and custom front rack. I'm using it as my commuter and have it > set up fixed. The QB that I bought this year came with custom wheels built > up with Phil Wood hubs which are very nice. I replaced the QB rear wheel > with the two speed fixed Bendix and mounted the Phil hub rear wheel on the > Casseroll. I did have to change the end caps to match the Casseroll 130 > OLD. The Casseroll had a limited production run and are kind of rare, so it > might be just as hard to find as a QB/S1. > > http://salsacycles.com/bikes/archive/2012_casseroll >
Ironically my Simpleone replaced a 2007 casseroll that was my single speed commuter that replaced my previous stolen commuter. I havent used one of the canti models, but Ill keep an eye out. One of the features that I really really really want is the front fork high rack mount braze ons ala rivendell. Besides riv the only other folks that I know commonly spec'ing them are soma and velo orange. > Low Option: As you had mentioned another option would be to build up an > old touring bike. I have an Azuki Elite frame/fork which I think is late > '70's that I would be willing to sell for $50 plus shipping. It's 62cm > chromoly lugged touring frame that was made in Japan. Semi-horizontal drop > outs and eyelets for fenders, but none for racks nor water bottles. > Requires center pull or side pull brakes, not canti. Rear OLD is 126mm. Red > paint polished up nicely, but it does have some scratches. Azuki was make > by Kawamura (Nishiki) for West Coast Cycle. I think building it up as a > Frankin bike using the S1 fork and a Paul racer rear brake would be pretty > cool. Let me know if you're interested, I can provide pictures. > Thanks! I'll take a looksee at that frame and follow up! If it's a beater anyways I wont have to worry about the paint. I can get new braze ons and canti mounts done locally. -- 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.
