Very very cool! I especially like the flat blue on the Paul brakes!
On Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 11:43:11 PM UTC-4 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > Finally. New. Bike. Day. > > This bike was a long time coming. I bought the frame in November > (November!) and have waited this long for the plethora of specialty parts > to arrive. > > Purple is a fun color; it never takes itself too seriously. It goes with > most other colors, which is what led me to choose…all the colors. > > The theme for this Platypus is: 80s My Little Pony. I call the bike My > Little Platy. > > The bike is a 50cm Rivendell Platypus with 650b wheels; it can be taken on > Amtrak and bus racks, which is something its 55cm siblings cannot do. I put > fat tires on it so it can handle gravel. My Gravel & Travel Platy. > > I adored My Little Pony in my girlhood, and my favorite ponies had rainbow > hair. Why settle for just pink or blue when some ponies had ALL the colors? > I started out this build incorporating a color here or there. (I had my > Paul brakes already cerakoted in blues.) But while looking for grips, I > found Ergon oil slick clamps and had my revelation: I wanted oil slick > everywhere I could get it. > > Because oil slick has ALL the colors. > > All the makers of these parts worked with me to make this bike happen. > They sent their beautiful products to me and let me alter them in wild, > saturated, living color. I don’t know if any of them understood why I was > going all out like this. All of them were men, save one - the anodizer. You > can see her work in the levers, chain rings, cranks, and bottom bracket. > She understood the assignment. > > I live with 3 men and none of them give the bike their stamp of approval. > The Lone Wolf will howl, alright. I remain steadfast in my adoration of > this bike because it does something for me. Takes me back to my simple, > happy 80s and 90s childhood. If when you were a little girl (most of your > were not), your friend had a dress-up closet and you could choose from her > lavish collection of finery to wear at playtime, and you just came out > WEARING ALL OF IT, well, that is this Platypus. > > Thank you to everyone at Analog Cycles, Paul Components, Ignite > Components, Ashley Anodized It, Velocity USA and Pedal Bicycles for making > this silly concept a real, tangible bicycle. And of course, thank you to > Rivendell Bicycle Works, who makes the best bikes in the world. > > Please find my video link below. > Leah > https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7S3y0AufkX/?igsh=ZTk5amhhaTR2anQ= > -- 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/fa09ee9e-b359-41e8-9acd-59df1a6223b5n%40googlegroups.com.
