Love 'em both! Great colors, and the front basket is perfect! On 4/11/11, MobileBill <[email protected]> wrote: > I told Jay and Keven we'd send photos along of the new Betty they both > worked with us on. Here's the little url (holler if I pasted it > wrong): > > http://tinyurl.com/3vphhf6 > > Bike has got a cool color, lime gold metallic, just this side of > weird. We've decided we really like it. Bike came in late February. > Have had a hard time getting my wife to sit still on it long enough to > take a photo _ in four weeks she was transformed from a both-feet-on- > the-ground newbie to a 20-mile-a-day fanatic. I think she takes it out > so much just because she knows she's going to turn heads when she > rides by on it. It's the most talked about mixte in Mobile. > Color's the most unusual element, but it was one of the first > Rivs to use the new cream SKS fenders, and the match is sweet, as > you'll see. Has a Keven double up front and 8 speed on the back (a > great choice for this bike, I think), rapid rise rear derailleur, and > the ultra cheap SunRace shifters with the fake indexing, which work > about as well as any friction shifter I've used. Soma New Xpress 38mm > on Velocity. Albatross and cork. > Bonus photos of my 6,000-mile-old Saluki, which I never managed > to post before. An interesting custom color, kind of burnt orange > persimmony, mutable in the changing light. It's become my workhorse, > my everyday commuter, my long miles bike. And photos of the largest > assemblage of Rivendells ever recorded in Mobile, beside the old Iron > Deer (it is what it is) and beneath the spooky oaks of Old Mobile. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > >
-- Cheers, David Redlands, CA *...in terms of recreational cycling there are many riders who would probably benefit more from improving their taste than from improving their performance.* - RTMS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
