On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 9:23:40 PM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote:
What have you all been up to? Are you having the same struggles? Who else is wanting to throw up their hands and just talk shop? Same weather here on the other side of Lake Wisconsin (fka Lake Michigan, but hey, apparently all geographic names are up for grabs). I've had a few 4-5 hour rides to settle in on the great bar and stem swap of the winter of 24-25. I'm in the process of going to narrower bars and shorter stems on all my bikes. Goes well with taking my first Social Security check, I think. The last bike to succumb is my Riv Road, my racing bike, with its Campy Daytona group, 53t big ring, long, low position, and a weave handlebar tape job that has been on there for about 15 years. Well, that tape job is now in the bin. I've been going with single-color jobs, matching the tape to the saddle, more or less, and not sure if I'm going to stick with that. The Riv Road bars are bare for now, as I might still put different bars and a different stem on there. The Riv Road has a white saddle, and white tape isn't going to last 15 years without a fair amount of shellac turning it not white. The tape that just came off was blue and white with a fair amount of shellac. Of course, a single layer of tape is a breeze to remove and replace, so a clean white wrap on a regular basis isn't a bad thing. It's also possible that I'm going to decide I don't need two almost identical road bikes - the Riv Road and the UrHeron. But it seems impossible that I'd decide to sell either of those. My shop is a nightmare mess. I tried cleaning it and the leprechauns just swooped in and trashed the place. And the rest of my house is worse. We had a deer jump through a window into our living room. The window is fixed and now all the wood-look-vinyl tile is completely removed (and all our furniture in the garage) in prep for new flooring installation next week. I'm going to Portugal for a week of wine and grandkid time. The d*** leprechauns better have tidied up my shop while I'm gone. Ted Durant Milwaukee WI USA -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/02b8032a-6dbe-4318-9437-bbe34c0141efn%40googlegroups.com.
