Did a fine job. Hope you have tens of thousands of happy riding miles. Those classic Campy parts are surely beautiful, but also well built. I think it is great you put some to work.
On Nov 25, 1:23 pm, manueljohnacosta <[email protected]> wrote: > My Bleriot pictures: here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mannyacosta/ > sets/72157622750754829/ > > Little story behind the frame and it's built up. > > This bike represents my coming to adulthood. Her name is Bella and she > is my first built from my first paycheck from my first real job. > Finding a job right out of college is a blessing during these hard > times, so I figured the best way to invest my money is buying the last > bike I'll ever own. The frame was picked up from a fantastic person 10 > miles from my work. Originally I was planning to buy his Italian Frame > but after some talking I found that we both had very similar ideals > when it came to biking, despite our huge age gap. He so happened to > have a frame he was planning to build up but never got to over the > years. After many months of begging he finally sold the frame to me. > To keep the bike similar to his original build, I went around building > the bike for it's functionally, in particular to the Carradice Barley > bag. But I also wanted to give the bike some class so I added all the > Campy stuff. But don't let the Campy parts fool you this bike gets > ridden daily through everything, fire trails, mud, sand. I love this > bike but more importantly I love what this bike stands for in my life, > "If you work hard in anything in life it will always work out." > > -Manny -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
