These are my favorite threads: history with a beloved bike. Best thing to read. I have so enjoyed all your ride pics on IG over the years, and I can never see an orange Hillborne without thinking JASON. Leah
On Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 10:03:27 PM UTC-5 Jason Fuller wrote: > Just an appreciation post for my Sam Hillborne, which I've owned for a > little over four years now, and today's ride put me over 10,000 km on its > odometer. Since I've owned it I've ridden about 25k km's total, but spread > across a number of bikes both past and present. My runner-up on mileage > right now is the Bombadil, despite not being in active service, at around > 6400km. I've had quite a habit of putting around 1200-1500km on bikes then > selling them - Clem H, Charlie Gallop, two Bridgestones .. and three of my > bikes, the Twenty, Brompton, and Wombat all fall within this range too. > This is the first bike I've ever hit the 10k milestone with (at least since > I started tracking mileage). > > It's certainly evolved, though it's actually received a lot less ongoing > investment than most of my bikes. I went over a year without buying > anything for it, in fact! When I first got the frameset I swapped > virtually all the parts from my previous bike, a Soma Grand Randonneur, and > I'd say around half the parts still remain. I switched out the Campy Athena > group for a mix of mostly older Shimano stuff, went from canti's to V > brakes, recently added the pannier rack as I've put it into commuter duty, > and perpetually swap between Albatross and the Simworks Noodle. > > I could not be happier with this bike and I truly believe the Sam > Hillborne is the perfect evolution of the country bike (non step thru). > It's the perfect balance of sporty yet comfortable, capable without being > overbuilt, and equally at home with drops or flat bars. Here's to another > 10k and beyond! > > [image: PXL_20231229_172405086 (1).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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/553fc2d6-b96c-4dea-b8f5-4cd4bed02473n%40googlegroups.com.
