This is the story of my life, circa 1990 until circa 2012 (tho' the bike building begins far earlier; built my first bike from scratch -- bought frame and scavenged parts in high summer -- Nov/Dec, southern hemisphere! -- 1970). Buy cheap, upgrade at huge cost, sell cheaper, repeat until you have spent a great deal of $$ and the lesson has sunk in.
Now I am in the enviable position of owning only bikes that are customs or ones selected and refurbished according to my own wishes. It would have been cheaper to go custom from the beginning -- except for the fact that I learned what I want by making all those mistaken upgrades in the first place. On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 9:06 AM Surlyprof <jmcclu...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... I went through bikes by Surly, Bianchi and SOMA trying to outfit them > as Riv-like country bikes. I spent a few thousand dollars upgrading parts > on each bike and never achieved the ride quality I had experienced test > riding Rivs. I eventually sold all those bikes at a substantial loss and > finally bought the Hillborne I should have bought initially. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgs6bFaLFcsPm_4e717YRAKqw5QDX06Z3avvdu7NGB_nOA%40mail.gmail.com.
