Very nice, Garth, and I apologize if you've posted before and I forgot about it.
Care to sell your Shrew? Can it take a tightly wadded winter cycling jacket, the old fashioned wool mix + nylon wind panels, size Med? And the really big question: is your Shrew black with orange straps? Thanks. On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 1:15 PM Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Patrick asked for another photo of my '99 custom Franklin, here call the > Bradley sport/touring model. So rather than post it in someone else's post > i may as well do it here. > > I've since reconfigured it quite a bit differently than it's ever been. I > flipped and lowered the stem so the bars are close to saddle height. I can > go lower but I'll take it steps. No more seat packs on my bikes. I tried a > Revelate Shrew which didn't attach to the post, thus further back, but my > saddles don't allow it to go that far back as product photos show, so out > with darn seat packs forever! I took the mini rack from the rear of the > Bomba and put it on the back of the Franklin. Much much nicer looking with > the mini rack than the seat pack. I'm using a stuff sack with the cargo net > for now, but have a Lone Peak micro bag on the way. I hope it doesn't look > awful! The Bomba got the full length top rack that Riv used to sell, it can > be used front or rear but I don't like front loads up high so it goes > behind too. > > The Franklin reach for reference, from the tip of the saddle to middle > center of the bars is 63cm. To the bar ends about 54cm. These Alba are the > 56 steel, which should still be in production as the 55's were notable > narrower at the end of the flats, before it starts curving, so it's now a > worthless bar @55cm , for me. The Billie, same story. I've been looking at > all those "gravelly" kind of drop bars. I think I may get a Crust Towel > bar, in a 63 I think. this is a road bike and only want a bit wide-err, to > try at least, I'm more curious than anything what that wide of a drop bar > would feel like. At the hoods it would be a bit wider than the upper most > flats of the Alba, which I use a lot! I really don't need the reach back of > the Alba, so that's why I may get the drops. But the Crust and the like are > less deep and less reach than typical drops, which is fine with me. If it's > too wide there are plenty of bars in between that and a 52cm Nitto Dirt > Drop, which I originally had on the bike. I would like something with a bit > more flare than that. A Towel bar might be even better for the Bomba. The > Franklin handles like a fine (80's) European racing bike. I don't think bar > width as as much of an issue as bar height. Too high and the Franklin feels > all wrong. Saddle height or lower and it's vroooming into those turns with > ease! > > My under the BB cable-over-and-through-the-casted-guides routing had > developed a rough and sharp edge to the groove and was eating a cable a > year or so, and getting worse. I wasn't terribly motivated to investigate > it, thinking it was just crappy cables. Ooops. So I used an old brake cable > as a sort of metal floss and worked that metal guide all nice and smooth. A > touch of toe nail polish(it's what I has on hand) and ...... and now what ? > I wanted to use some cable liner but it was too big for the holes. Lo and > behold, Jagwire sells that stuff in smaller diameter for shift cables. So > after the angst of waiting for it arrive, with bait-ed breath that stuff > went in all nice like! About 4 inches I used for both sides. I was so > impressed I added little bit to my Suntour Power ratchet thumbshifters, > where the cable curves around the groove in the body. I've had a cable fray > there. It's Jagwire product JSAY051, slick lube liner. It comes in four > 2300mm sections. > 1.4mm ID, 1.9mm OD. > > When I had this made in '99 I was choosing between this and an Atlantis, > the original, slightly longer one. I'm glad I chose to have it built by a > local Ohio builder. It has the handling I'm accustomed to from riding race > bikes of the 70-80's. So you know how people talk all nostalgic about > Bridgestone, Trek, or whatever brand ? I had a nice Trek but like all the > stock bikes back then and most today, they lacked the reach and length of > the front end. It was like sleeping on a mattress that's too short. So > while I love the styles of those bikes, particularly the European ones, I > don't miss the lack of fitting in them ! All lookey but no fitty ! All > those bikes have style, oozing with creativity and flair, done with pride > and joy of showing off their ride-able art on wheels. Steel bikes for-ever > and ever ..... and ever ! > > If you're gonna tell a story .... and that's really about all we do .... > it may as well be F U N ! > Evoking laughter .... smiles .... illumination ! Even in all that > apparent matter-of-facts ..... which aren't so much factual as they are > musical .... yeah .... like notes of music in all their variations. It's a > marvelous song playing and We're It. Even those that seem off-key, > discordant and such. Like this guy in my locality who thinks I as bike > rider, should not be on the road at all, that "if you can't keep up with > the flow of traffic, you should have a slow moving vehicle sign at your > rear". Straight for the horsey's mouth. No, I'm not an Amish buggy .... but > I suppose you "could" call my ride an Amish Whip! Well, that's another > story for later...... > > -- > 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/a261455a-8a22-4126-b6c1-7d03b1af2ae0n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a261455a-8a22-4126-b6c1-7d03b1af2ae0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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