Nice to score the orange! Soon you'll ride it so much you'll forget about the paint. I vote blue bar tape.
Ryan On Nov 22, 1:51 pm, Minh <mgiangs...@gmail.com> wrote: > First i want to say thanks to everyone on this group, i've been a Riv > member for a long time but away for the last few years. I recently > looked at my stable of bikes and realized i didn't actually want to > ride any of them for a long period of time so i decided to solve > that. A new go-fast bike was not that appealing to me and the new > Rivendell's like the AHH or Roadeo were more then i wanted to spend. > > The Hillborne looked like a good idea as i wanted to put a rack and > fenders on mine, the canti brakes were a slight turn-off (i gave up > canti's like 10 years ago!) But i got over this too, as an aside is > anyone running the old magura hydraulic brakes on an Hillborne or > Atlantis? I know this is counter to the spirit of the group but > curious if anyone has done this. I have them on a mt bike only. > > Anyway i've been lurking for awhile hoping to pick up a Rambouillet, > Atlantis, Bleriot etc but nothing in my size or i was too late. I > finally picked up a Hillborne on ebay last week (yes the orange single > tt one in the box on ebay last week--sorry if you were bidding against > me, for the record his reserve price was almost his BIN price). I > just got it today and i realized that this is actually the first "new" > bike i've had to build up from scratch ever and it's by far the nicest > one, the thought of putting it into the work-stand for the first time > feels a little strange. > > One thing i will say, i know what Grant means about not quite as nice > as AHH finish but perfectly fine nonetheless, there are some less then > perfect paint areas (one spot on the top tube looks like they got some > sediment in the paint, it's actually quite bad) it's the kind of > thing that bothers you at first but then you realize there are a lot > worse things in life but since i plan on riding this bike it's not the > end of the world for me, the sparkly paint is nice. > > Sorry if there is not much point to this post, just excited to build > up my first Rivendell bicycle. I'm a little worried about the size i > got (went with 56, scared of the 60 and my PBH is low relative to > height), but i'll see once i get wheels etc on the bike and whether i > need to swap out stems etc. > > Now on to the important decisions like what color bar tape.... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
