As a further evolution of my bike preferences, I've decided to build up a
dedicated single-speed bike. My Devil frameset would work well for this
but I want to use 26 wheels. My 83-84 MTB has the right dropouts but it's
just not that much fun to ride. I think my mid-life crisis is revolving
Sounds like it will be a good bike! I'm not super-versed in them, but the
later-steel Rockhoppers look like real good bikes. This era I'm guessing:
http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/bik/4589937760.html
The earlier ones are probably more relaxed re-pack geometry I would think:
Chris: make it a fixed ss and all your desires will be fully and perfectly
achieved.
I've used the 32-35 mm Kojaks in both 26 and 700C sizes and they are very,
very nice tires, and my brother says that the 26 2 Kojaks are the Bees'
Knees, but if the 37 mm Jan Heine* tires in any way compare to 2
Definately want the sportier geometry! By the mid-90's the Rockhopper and
Stumpjumpers seem have switched completely to vertical dropouts and even in
the 1992 the Rockhopper comp had vertical dropouts instead of the forward
facing ones the base model Rockhopper has. I think they are the same
My '92 Stumpjumper Pro had short horizontal dropouts that made it easy to
single speed.
Eric
Dublin, OH
On Sunday, July 27, 2014, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch
rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com wrote:
Definately want the sportier geometry! By the mid-90's the Rockhopper and
I know there was a lister selling a rockhhopper frame for 40 bucks a week
or so ago. I think it was a 22.
On Jul 27, 2014 3:42 PM, Eric Daume ericda...@gmail.com wrote:
My '92 Stumpjumper Pro had short horizontal dropouts that made it easy to
single speed.
Eric
Dublin, OH
On Sunday, July
It was David and he was selling a Hardrock, I wish I could have picked it
up but just no time.
On Jul 27, 2014 3:44 PM, Goshen Peter uscpeter11...@gmail.com wrote:
I know there was a lister selling a rockhhopper frame for 40 bucks a week
or so ago. I think it was a 22.
On Jul 27, 2014 3:42 PM,
Schwalbe was very good about replacing a tire with a broken bead. It was pretty
much just Send us a picture. Okay. Choose your preferred tread pattern.
http://www.biketinker.com/2011/projects/big-apple-failure/
And... A White Industries Eric's Eccentric ENO wheel will let you use a newer
frame
I didn't see the Hardrock for sale but I just looked it up and it sounds
like one of the earlier ones, which means it might not have had the
geometry I want.
I've got a bid on E-Bay for a 20 Rockhopper. My initial inclination is to
want a 22 but I realize those will be much more rare. I've
I've cabled up one bike and it was such a tedious and frustrating event
that I now just take it to an LBS and let them do it. Hopefully I'll get
the bike back today or tomorrow.
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:05:20 PM UTC-5, jpp wrote:
Hopefully someday your tastes evolve into putting
Well, I think when I was young I had a bike with a banana seat and ape
hangers and it was called The Good Buddy or something. Broke that frame
after a year or so.
When in grade school I had some no name 10 speed. It was black and I rode
that everywhere. Broke that frame ghost riding it off a
Hopefully someday your tastes evolve into putting shifter/brake cables and
a chain on a bike, but to each their own!!! Only kidding
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:55:09 PM UTC-4, Chris Lampe 2 wrote:
My bike preferences continue to evolove and I've recently been riding and
83-84 MTB, one
As a kid I rode Stingrays and Stingray knockoffs. Then at age fourteen I
stopped riding altogether. Many years later, in 1996, a friend passed me
his Rivendell catalog and told me I might like it. He was wrong. I loved
it. Read every word of the catalog and Reader for ten years but still
Everyone responded with SUCH better detail than my original ramble could
have expected! I feel I should follow suit:
My first 2 wheeled adventure began 1975 on a Huffy exactly like this
one.http://bmxmuseum.com/image/img_0800_copy1_blowup.jpg Dad
stuck training wheels on it for a few weeks
Over time I have moved to simplicity. Fewer gears - my road bike is a true
ten speed, my commuter / light tourer is a 1x5, and will have a single
speed for heavy touring off road. Less pizazz/paint - road bike has simple
cinelli lugs one color, commuter is raw stainless fillet braze, single
I re-discovered bicycles in 2000 when I was looking for a fun way to
stay encouraged to get some cardio exercise. A visit to a local shop in
Midland MI provided me with a left over Trek Navigator (all steel) which
I enjoyed immensely. I kept playing with it to make more useful, but
without
Really neat thread, haven't had time to read all of the responses, but my
own thinking has been meandering along this path recently. I'm relatively
young (29) but have been cycling seriously for 11 or 12 years. I'd always
considered myself relatively faithful to my bikes, not turning them
Years ago I started a series of blog posts called, To All The Bikes I've
Loved Before. I never completed it because there are so many. Maybe I
should go back to it though. I think I left off with the Eisentraut frame
I picked up used and have since sold. The funny thing for me about my
bikes
My evolution is pretty typical.
Started with newspaper delivery bikes: Worksman industrial plus big Wald
baskets front and back. Really useful, no-nonsense, bikes.
Moved to Raleighs: The Competition and their fabulous metric crit bike
(RRA) during college. Great bikes for bombing around town
I tend to remember the bikes that really helped to influence and ultimately
shape my current preference...
- ''63 Schwinn Typhoon fat-tired SS coaster. (That unmistakable
style/look AND feel still lives in my heart)
- Garage sale 70s Atala 10-spd frankenbike (probably in it's second
Pretty easy for me:
inexpensive bike expensive bikes
Cheers!
Chris
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BMX bikes, to freestyle bikes, to MOTR race bikes, to full suspension
mountain bikes, to track bikes, to cyclocross bikes, to rehabbed UJBs, to
tourish all-rounders.
Basically, pick a two-wheeled trend and I was there, plus or minus a couple
of years.
Jeff Hagedorn
Los Angeles, CA USA
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I dislike categories, but my bike preferences now are definitely in the range
between off-pavement touring bikes and fat bikes. Sold my Surly Disc Trucker
today, which leaves me with a Surly Ogre with 29x2.35 tires as my road bike.
I also have a Surly ECR and a Moonlander. This all started with
This should be a fun thread!
I started out with normal kid's bikes in the 1970's that were mostly based
on BMX designs. At some point my parents bought matching 3-speeds and one
of my goals was to be able to ride my dad's giant bike. I did have one
10-speed my parents got at K-Mart and
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Chris Lampe 2 clampe9...@yahoo.comwrote:
This should be a fun thread!
Indeed! I've acquired my preferences over almost 45 years of building my
own bikes -- my first complete build, not counting modifications egregious
or otherwise, was at age 15 in 1970 --
The first bike that I bought, with my own hard earned money was a Redline
BMX in 7th grade or so. I still have it. The first useful bike I got was in
8th grade. I would tally up my babysitting money and go to the local bike
shop (Larry and Jeff's on 79th and 3rd in NYC). Each time I would
Most changes based on comfort.
First thing was a Unicanitor saddle on my old Raleigh because it looked
good and I could ride it then. The desire was a go-fast bike within a
student budget. Then killed the spined crank on my old Raleigh climbing
to my apartment in south Austin. Bought
Neat thread
1961 - learned to ride on my sister's Glider (English brand that Eaton's
carried) - nice, smooth and quite light bike...electric blue with white
fenders and nice almostNitto North Road type bars
1962 - moved to Winnipeg and inherited my other sister's late 40's CCM.
But it was my
The 1st bike I really remember was a candy apple green Stingray... I rode
that from age 6 'till maybe 12. Most of the time on dirt roads, cow trails,
off jumps. I stripped it down and rattle can painted it may 5 times. In Jr
high I got a road bike. Rode that every where the Stingray went.
oh... and I forgot to say... I'm seriously considering a fat bike next
can't go with much fatter tires than that!
~mike
On Friday, February 28, 2014 1:27:33 PM UTC-8, Mike Schiller wrote:
The 1st bike I really remember was a candy apple green Stingray... I rode
that from age 6 'till
of the inspiration for that.
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[mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Schiller
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 4:28 PM
To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com
Subject: [RBW] Re: Evolution of your bike preference?
The 1st bike I really remember
There seems to be a lot of jonesing for fat bikes this winter! Me, too.
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[mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ryan
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 3:57 PM
To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com
Subject: [RBW] Re: Evolution of your bike
This is fun!
Age 7: Parents scored a Huffy purple and white with pink roses banana seat
bike at a garage sale. Said bike had been run over by the family's car, and
someone had decided to fix it with a weld job. It was because of this
that pedaling the thing was near-impossible, but my scrawny
Let some air out – the perfect bike will become uber-perfect.
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[mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LeahFoy
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 6:28 PM
To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com
Subject: [RBW] Re: Evolution of your bike preference
Age 7-11: Schwinn Stingray, to school a few miles away, but most memories
of ghost riding it down the road, over ramps and jumps and over the same
jumps over the ditch in front of our house.
11-17: Diamond Back mountain bike. Most memorable ride was Fall River Road
in Rockey Mountain national
Mongoose BMX bikes Schwinn hardtail Specialized CrMo single speed
Ironhorse long travel hardtail KHS OX steel hardtail single speed
conversion Specialized fixed gear Surly Cross Check w/ Albatross bars
Steamroller with mustachio bars Soma ES w drops and friction shifters
Origin 8
oh, we're going that far back - first bike was a Sears The Rail
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/1966_SearsCatalog.jpg
exactly the same as the purple one in the ad - 5-sp RD, stick shift, 20
front and 24 rear (I wonder if this is why I run a Vittoria Evo front tire
and Parigi
My Murray BMX got me everywhere as a kid. My brother had a matching one and
we had great adventures. We then went to mtbs. But as cars and girls took
over bikes took a backseat. In my late 20s got back into cycling, had many
a vintage bike trying to get that just right feel. A buddy of mine at
As a kid I went from little red roadster, to Sears Free Spirit stingray, to
a Huffy ten-speed (all gifts from parents. I'd get the Paramount I really
wanted later...much later). In college I had a Schwinn (LeTour?) and a
Shogun which was the best bike I'd ever had. Felt fast but in reality
My mom told me that when I was 2 we were stationed at Strategic Air Command
HQ's. She thought I was outside playing with the neighbor kids and then
went to check on me and I was riding my tricycle along side an Air Police.
He said I had rode my trike 2 miles to the gate and I didn't know my
That looks like my pink Schwinn Junior Miss!! I wish I still had that bike.
Folks here in Silverlake build them up and ride around town with them. I
saw one parked at Traders and looked at it with envy.
On Friday, February 28, 2014 6:36:05 PM UTC-8, Ron Mc wrote:
oh, we're going that far back
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