[RBW] Re: FS/FT: Rene Herse 700x55 Antelope Hill Endurance + & White Industries M/A/R/G VBC chainrings

2023-09-13 Thread exliontamer
Tires traded. Still have the White Industries chainrings On Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 2:53:30 PM UTC-5 exliontamer wrote: > [image: IMG_4855.jpg] > [image: IMG_4737.jpg] > > On Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 2:52:41 PM UTC-5 exliontamer wrote: > >> More stuff for trade ideally. >> >> *Pair

Re: [RBW] Re: Babies on bikes

2023-09-13 Thread Will Boericke
Trailer for me when my kids were small. Don't like that unpredictable weight up high and they grow fast, so any up top solution is very impermanent. They'll be towing me around soon :) Will On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 10:05:10 AM UTC-4 pbsm...@gmail.com wrote: > Kushan - that's

Re: [RBW] Introducing the Charlie H Gallop Protovelo

2023-09-13 Thread Johnny Alien
Oh yeah! I replaced the crankset with a discontinued NOS TA set. Very light and fancy. :) On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 3:24:50 PM UTC-4 Johnny Alien wrote: > Here is my close to final version of the ProtoGallop. Knowing that the > Roadini was going away for awhile I just could not pass

Re: [RBW] Re: Toyo Atlantis Update

2023-09-13 Thread Kim H.
Good move on your decision to go with handlebar tape. I agree, Eliot . Kim Hetzel. On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 7:36:15 AM UTC-7 eliot...@gmail.com wrote: > Yeah the avocado look wasn’t doing it for me. I think some dark gray tape > or black leather sounds good. Glad this peeled off

[RBW] Aging cyclists (was upright bars and geometry)

2023-09-13 Thread Ted Durant
On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 8:41:29 AM UTC-4 rmro...@gmail.com wrote: Garth, of course nothing you say here is wrong, it’s simply not the same for everyone. And I know you know that. I am a 68 year old lifetime cyclist. I’ve been through many drop bar bikes and though my last one

Re: [RBW] Re: Babies on bikes

2023-09-13 Thread Pat Smith
Kushan - that's right no room for my legs or knees! My flat bar hybrid bike provides the most clearance given it's long top tube but it was still uncomfortable. Mountain bikes with very long top tubes may do better. Smitty On Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 12:26:40 PM UTC-4 Kushan wrote: >

Re: [RBW] Re: Sweepback bars, Clems, frame design, and efficient pedaling [upright bars: how does shorter or longer stem affect steering?]

2023-09-13 Thread Richard Rose
Garth, of course nothing you say here is wrong, it’s simply not the same for everyone. And I know you know that. I am a 68 year old lifetime cyclist. I’ve been through many drop bar bikes and though my last one (Custom Richard Sachs) was easily the best, I was never truly comfortable. I mean, I

[RBW] Re: Sweepback bars, Clems, frame design, and efficient pedaling [upright bars: how does shorter or longer stem affect steering?]

2023-09-13 Thread Garth
In regards to being "old" and needing high bars as an accommodation, well that isn't true at all. I'm more flexible now on the bike than I ever was in my teens to 20's. All that's needed to express one's inherent abilities, it to express it. Yes that's sounds funny, and it is, because it's that