[RBW] Re: Life's little epics
A good weekend, indeed. Thanks for sharing. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean P. S. Bikes are great! On Aug 22, 4:00 pm, Way Rebb grayc...@mac.com wrote: I've been mildly bummed that I haven't taken my epic 10 year journey around the earth on a solid steel three speed from the fifties. When these moments of misery wash over me I think back on all the great little rides I do manage to squeak in. Five hours here, eight hours there plus the normal daily rides to work, coffee shops, post office all the while looking down at a nice green bicycle designed and put together by a small local company about 30 miles up the road. I think about all the great people I've met, those on bicycles and those off bicycles (who say they'd like to be on one but...) and then I know today is a great day to go for a bike ride. Okay enough silly philostopher stuff. What I did was put together a little photo essay about last weekend's ride. Pretty typical weekend that has become so routine I can't appreciate it as other do when they say you rode there on a bicycle?. Yes, people say that for even these little dinky (to me) rides. Saturday was a little shopping trip from Livermore to Dublin to Pleasanton farmers market and back to Livermore. Sunday was a ride over Altamont Pass Road to Tracy and back. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/sets/72157624658476139/ Regards, Ray -- 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.
[RBW] Re: Life's little epics
Three questions, Ray. How do you like the leather HB tape? Does having a HB bag that hi up affect the bike handling? How do you get tomatoes home a bike without them getting all banged up? Michael in cool, rainy Westford, VT On Aug 22, 5:00 pm, Way Rebb grayc...@mac.com wrote: I've been mildly bummed that I haven't taken my epic 10 year journey around the earth on a solid steel three speed from the fifties. When these moments of misery wash over me I think back on all the great little rides I do manage to squeak in. Five hours here, eight hours there plus the normal daily rides to work, coffee shops, post office all the while looking down at a nice green bicycle designed and put together by a small local company about 30 miles up the road. I think about all the great people I've met, those on bicycles and those off bicycles (who say they'd like to be on one but...) and then I know today is a great day to go for a bike ride. Okay enough silly philostopher stuff. What I did was put together a little photo essay about last weekend's ride. Pretty typical weekend that has become so routine I can't appreciate it as other do when they say you rode there on a bicycle?. Yes, people say that for even these little dinky (to me) rides. Saturday was a little shopping trip from Livermore to Dublin to Pleasanton farmers market and back to Livermore. Sunday was a ride over Altamont Pass Road to Tracy and back. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/sets/72157624658476139/ Regards, Ray -- 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.
[RBW] Re: Life's little epics
Michael, The tape is cloth tape, silver, with three or four coats of garnet shellac applied over a year ago. It is getting a nice patina now. The HB bag felt different for about the first 10 minutes. Now I don't even notice. I used the VO bag mounted to the front rack for quite a while. That also felt different at first but I couldn't access the pockets and fastening the latch was awkward. That was due to the way I mounted it. The decalleur would have been better but I would have to take to much of the bike apart. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/4918208604/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/4917605573/ I love the magnet closure on the Sackville bag and the side pockets are easy to access, being handle bar level, Last century I used a Kirtland mounted high and have never noticed negative handling characteristics. I'd say the handed is fine. Tomatos ride in the saddle bag and are packed pretty tightly with the onions and peppers and a bunch of other stuff. They survive the ride with a nice tomato flavor. Regards, Ray On Aug 22, 3:56 pm, MichaelH mhech...@gmail.com wrote: Three questions, Ray. How do you like the leather HB tape? Does having a HB bag that hi up affect the bike handling? How do you get tomatoes home a bike without them getting all banged up? Michael in cool, rainy Westford, VT -- 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.
[RBW] Re: Life's little epics
The pictures in the photo stream show a bike with a bag mounted to the bars, not a decalleur, and I would swear the tape in those pictures was leather. michael On Aug 22, 8:16 pm, Way Rebb grayc...@mac.com wrote: Michael, The tape is cloth tape, silver, with three or four coats of garnet shellac applied over a year ago. It is getting a nice patina now. The HB bag felt different for about the first 10 minutes. Now I don't even notice. I used the VO bag mounted to the front rack for quite a while. That also felt different at first but I couldn't access the pockets and fastening the latch was awkward. That was due to the way I mounted it. The decalleur would have been better but I would have to take to much of the bike apart. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/4918208604/http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrebb/4917605573/ I love the magnet closure on the Sackville bag and the side pockets are easy to access, being handle bar level, Last century I used a Kirtland mounted high and have never noticed negative handling characteristics. I'd say the handed is fine. Tomatos ride in the saddle bag and are packed pretty tightly with the onions and peppers and a bunch of other stuff. They survive the ride with a nice tomato flavor. Regards, Ray On Aug 22, 3:56 pm, MichaelH mhech...@gmail.com wrote: Three questions, Ray. How do you like the leather HB tape? Does having a HB bag that hi up affect the bike handling? How do you get tomatoes home a bike without them getting all banged up? Michael in cool, rainy Westford, VT -- 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.
