[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
Scotty, what's the deal? You put the bike together in a few hours? Why is there snow on the ground? Why are your photos dated February 2007? Are you punkin us? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/DPo1wyWmxXAJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
LOL. Yes I put the bike together in about 2 hours. It was built by Riv and I just assembled it. Everything was already measured and cut and I used the assembly video on the Riv youtube channel which helped. That is not snow it is white rock in my very un weeded landscape bed. I was sweating my butt off when those pictures were taken, and they are dated Feb because I dont know how to use my camera and I didnt even realize they were dated at all until you pointed it out but if you feel punked, then I guess Im punkin you LOL but this excitement about that bike sure feels real LOL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/peDNjQmPwLAJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
awesome! enjoy your ride! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/mSAZz7xvnT4J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
FYI ... UPS doesn't start deliver to homes until 9:00 AM and can run until at least 7:00 PM, later at Christmas time. Just check your tracking info, it always tells you the exact time time when delivered, and sometimes even where. With a bike, likely it requires a signature, but that's up to Riv to request that. In my area there are typically two times a day when UPS trucks come around ... once mid morning ... then once late afternoon... but that's just here. Don't worry, tomorrow when you've got the bike and slept ... you'll get a good laugh over the anguish of today. Have fun with it . . . relish the anticipation. It's a one of a kind experience :) -- 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-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
It gets better. A realty office and my house have exactly the same prefix number and street name. The only difference is the suffix, of which mine is drive and theirs is square east. Needless to say, we're always getting some of their mail and vice versa which we both have to point out to the post office to forward to the correct destination. So, a couple of years ago I was awaiting a UPS delivery for some product - can't even remember what it was. It came and I received it directly from the driver. While I was out in the garage unpacking it I noticed that he was taking an exceptional amount of time (which they rarely do) clearing the delivery on his hand-held CPU and driving on. Finally, I noticed him walking back up my driveway. He explained that the package had been delivered to the wrong place and that he'd have to take it back. I told him that, no, it had indeed been delivered to the person who ordered it, but that the suffix was always getting confused with the realty office a few blocks away. Didn't matter, he said, it would have to be repackaged, taken back to the shipping center, and put back onto a truck the next day for correct delivery destination. Seeing that I wasn't going to win the argument I reluctantly got out my packaging tape dispenser and repacked everything. Next day, sure enough, here came the UPS truck, the driver handing me my recently repacked order. On Jul 20, 3:30 pm, Steve Palincsar palin...@his.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 13:03 -0700, Scotty wrote: My new Hilsen has been on the truck Out For Delivery since 7:00 this morning. Got my camera ready, my tools laid out and I am pacing around my living room wondering if he delivered to the wrong house, got in an accident, stole my bike, LOL. I wish he would hurry up. I have been waiting 4 months for this bike but the last 2 hours have been the worst. :-) I wish you good luck. When I was in that status with my new MAP Randonneur, I went out in the back yard to get the parts together for the build. While I was out there, FedEx came, knocked on the door and went away. I saw the Delivery Exception report on the internet. Realized unless I spent the day out on the front porch, they'd only go through the same thing again tomorrow, and then the day afterward -- and at the temperatures we were having last week that would be impossible -- so put in for them to change the destination to a FedEx store a mile away. I visit the store the next day to ship something and learn it can take them an additional 24 hours to deliver to a changed destination. This even though the FedEx store is less than five miles from the depot! So I ship the package I brought down and go home. Maybe they'll phone later on. It is on the truck, after all, and Alexandria isn't all that big. Three hours later, it's gone from a hot but sunny day to a rip snorter thunderstorm with rain that's lashing down so hard the city of Alexandria issued a flash flood warning, temperatures dropped 30 degrees in fifteen minutes, and they call. Come get your package. So I drive down there through the downpour, turn into the 0 shaped driveway in front of the store, and find there's a tow truck with a disabled taxi cab parked in the middle of the driveway. No way I can park, can't back up without hitting a pole. And there's the store, ten feet away. With my frame. So I shut off the car and go in to get my package, and while I'm the store somebody comes in and starts going on about who left their car blocking the driveway, and they're going to call the police. Fortunately, the woman at the desk had taken all my info when I was there earlier, and by the time I got the car started and moved out of the middle of the driveway she'd brought the box to the door, and it only took me a second to grab it, stow it and drive away, up to the LBS. That was a week ago. It's still at the LBS being built up. It's been hard putting that out of my mind. Not supposed to be done until Friday or Saturday. Don't even think about it. Still, it'd be nice to actually see it. So far, I've seen this photohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mapcycles/5905585828/in/photostream and a bubble-wrapped frame-like shape we took out of the shipping box at the LBS. -- 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-bunch@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.
Re: [RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:36 -0700, George Schick wrote: It gets better. A realty office and my house have exactly the same prefix number and street name. The only difference is the suffix, of which mine is drive and theirs is square east. Needless to say, we're always getting some of their mail and vice versa which we both have to point out to the post office to forward to the correct destination. I live on East Howell. Three blocks away, across Commonwealth Ave., is West Howell. We get their mail, they get our mail, the restaurants are always trying to deliver their take-out dinners to us and several times last year the lawn service fertilized their lawn when it was supposed to be ours. (At least, they not only came back and did ours, too, they gave us the all of last year's service free.) -- 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-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
Don't worry, tomorrow when you've got the bike and slept ... I don't think there will be much sleeping going on there tonight. I had an interesting experience when my Atlantis arrived. I worked from home, got frequent UPS Fed Ex deliveries. Late afternoon, doorbill rings. Who...?. Open the door there's a really, really BIG bike boxOMG! Today's the day! The office is now closed the bike shop open! Being on the same coast with Riv, my bike got down here in something like a couple of days compared to the week I was expecting. I didn't expect to see it for several more days. Pleasant surprise. dougP On Jul 20, 1:14 pm, Garth garth...@gmail.com wrote: FYI ... UPS doesn't start deliver to homes until 9:00 AM and can run until at least 7:00 PM, later at Christmas time. Just check your tracking info, it always tells you the exact time time when delivered, and sometimes even where. With a bike, likely it requires a signature, but that's up to Riv to request that. In my area there are typically two times a day when UPS trucks come around ... once mid morning ... then once late afternoon... but that's just here. Don't worry, tomorrow when you've got the bike and slept ... you'll get a good laugh over the anguish of today. Have fun with it . . . relish the anticipation. It's a one of a kind experience :) -- 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-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
I am probably going to leave it in the box until tomorrow after work since it is still not here and I have to be at work at 3AM. If I start on it tonight I wont stop until its exactly how I want it. That just wont do. I was hoping to get my first ride in today but that definitely wont happen. Oh well. At least the wait is almost over. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/TWfMECoPwQoJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
Re: [RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 15:36 -0700, Scotty wrote: I am probably going to leave it in the box until tomorrow after work since it is still not here and I have to be at work at 3AM. If I start on it tonight I wont stop until its exactly how I want it. That just wont do. I was hoping to get my first ride in today but that definitely wont happen. Oh well. At least the wait is almost over. Building up a bike in a hurry in the dead of night when you are tired is a seriously bad idea. When I brought our first tandem back from JFK, getting home to Beacon NY well after midnight, I simply couldn't wait to unpack the bike and reassemble it. I learned a few weeks later, riding on a bike trail on Martha's Vineyard when one of the pedals started wobbling from side to side, in my desperate hurry to see the bike assembled I had cross-threaded it. What joy! Good thing it was French. The nearest bike shop was able to re-thread that crank arm to English, and I was able to purchase a pedal that worked. -- 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-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
I too wish to feel the pangs of desire as a new Rivendell lumbers to my door. On Jul 20, 4:44 pm, Steve Palincsar palin...@his.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 15:36 -0700, Scotty wrote: I am probably going to leave it in the box until tomorrow after work since it is still not here and I have to be at work at 3AM. If I start on it tonight I wont stop until its exactly how I want it. That just wont do. I was hoping to get my first ride in today but that definitely wont happen. Oh well. At least the wait is almost over. Building up a bike in a hurry in the dead of night when you are tired is a seriously bad idea. When I brought our first tandem back from JFK, getting home to Beacon NY well after midnight, I simply couldn't wait to unpack the bike and reassemble it. I learned a few weeks later, riding on a bike trail on Martha's Vineyard when one of the pedals started wobbling from side to side, in my desperate hurry to see the bike assembled I had cross-threaded it. What joy! Good thing it was French. The nearest bike shop was able to re-thread that crank arm to English, and I was able to purchase a pedal that worked. -- 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-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
Well folks, she finally arrived and I put it together, mostly. Here are a few pics. I have a rear Tubus rack to install but it looks like the fender struts will be in the way so I will have to deal with that and need to adjust everything up a bit but I rode it up and down the street a bit and it sure rides nice. I cant wait to get it out for a real ride. http://www.flickr.com/photos/65433756@N02/sets/72157627119818025/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/g-zp8WhXanMJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
Re: [RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 18:28 -0700, Scotty wrote: Well folks, she finally arrived and I put it together, mostly. Here are a few pics. I have a rear Tubus rack to install but it looks like the fender struts will be in the way so I will have to deal with that and need to adjust everything up a bit but I rode it up and down the street a bit and it sure rides nice. I cant wait to get it out for a real ride. http://www.flickr.com/photos/65433756@N02/sets/72157627119818025/ Joy! -- 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-bunch@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.
[RBW] Re: Gee Whiz UPS
Hey Scotty, congrats on the new bike. I remember I ordered my Hilsen frame when my wife unexpectedly gave me the greenlight. It arrived and I held onto it for about 2 months before I had all the parts for putting it together. That first ride home was fun. Hope you enjoy your new bike. Be sure to add pictures to the AHH group. --mike On Jul 20, 6:28 pm, Scotty bongos...@verizon.net wrote: Well folks, she finally arrived and I put it together, mostly. Here are a few pics. I have a rear Tubus rack to install but it looks like the fender struts will be in the way so I will have to deal with that and need to adjust everything up a bit but I rode it up and down the street a bit and it sure rides nice. I cant wait to get it out for a real ride. http://www.flickr.com/photos/65433756@N02/sets/72157627119818025/ -- 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-bunch@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.
