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Beautiful badge Olivier. Bravo! Jan San Francisco, CA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To

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It's a nice looking head badge. I'm going to get a bike, just to have that head badge :) . On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 3:41:00 PM UTC-4, Olivier Chételat wrote: > > Thank you for the kind words, Kim, Mark, Leah and David. It means a whole > lot. The pressure was on to not mess this one up

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Thank you for the kind words, Kim, Mark, Leah and David. It means a whole lot. The pressure was on to not mess this one up and I'm very very glad of the positive feedback so far; so is Grant. YaY! Sam, without knowing geometry details, the Platypus looks like a Cheviot with curved seat stays

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Here's a photo on our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CECGYWwnzqg/ On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 8:30:16 AM UTC-7 Sam Perez wrote: > what does the platypus look like ? i dont see it on the website > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 1:30 PM 'Hetchins52' via RBW Owners Bunch < >

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I think joe posted the initial preview of it. Search the list under new Cheviot, or maybe fancy cheviot (?) , something like that. (It is the platypus, but that comes after.) On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:30 AM Sam Perez wrote: > what does the platypus look like ? i dont see it on the website >

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what does the platypus look like ? i dont see it on the website On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 1:30 PM 'Hetchins52' via RBW Owners Bunch < rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Magnificent! A highly mobile art piece! > I must buy one of these bikes just to prominently display the head badge. >

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Magnificent! A highly mobile art piece! I must buy one of these bikes just to prominently display the head badge. And, for my own viewing pleasure. Thank you Olivier! David Lipsky Berkeley, CA On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 10:11:38 AM UTC-7, Olivier Chételat wrote: > > ...and some

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Well, you just knocked it right out of the park, Olivier! It is wonderful! So much color and detail and depth. Love, love, love. Sent from my iPad > On Aug 26, 2020, at 10:11 AM, Olivier Chételat wrote: > >  > ...and some additional material for those still waiting for a Platypus by way >

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I second that--fantastic job. On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 1:21:14 PM UTC-4, Flowerfang wrote: > > > Olivier - you’ve outdone yourself !! > What a masterpiece. > I love the artwork so much. >  > > > from kim > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:11 AM Olivier Chételat > wrote: > >>

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Just some material for those still waiting for a Platypus: https://i.redd.it/0a07ng567bj51.png -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

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Aha, Sting Ray, now I remember. Google and Wiki provide the text below. My only contact with the fad was a top-tube-mounted 3-speed shifter that I found in the 1968 Sears Christmas Catalogue and added to to my Christmas list and, indulgent parents thank you!, actually got via slow boat in time for

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> When did the prototypical child's bike change from a balloon-tire cruiser to a chopper-type bike? Midway through 1964. In the heady days of customizing cars and motorcycles, a Schwinn executive saw kids in California customizing their balloon-tire bikes to make them look and ride like

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When did the prototypical child's bike change from a balloon-tire cruiser to a chopper-type bike? It must have been while we were outside the US, because all the kids' bikes I recall from elementary school were cruiser types; I recall one little girl with a "Dale Evans" version in palomino colors

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[image: good buddy.jpg] This isn't my picture as I just found it on google, but this is the first bike model I remember riding. On the saddle it says "Good Buddy" so I always called it my good buddy. I rode that thing so much the frame eventually broke...well, we were riding in a field and

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I thought you might like this collection of Schwinn catalogs: https://bikehistory.org/ [image: 1963-stingray-ad.jpg] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

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I'm not a big podcast listener but I highly recommend the one Leah mentioned. It's amazing, and parents in the '70s were nuts! On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 11:31:10 AM UTC-7 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > Julian, your childhood looks to be the stuff of dreams. What a cool and > eclectic

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Hi Leah, I still have that C Itoh. It’s gone a ways since ‘74, mostly in its first 20 years. I’ll post a current photo of it tomorrow. It was my Dad’s, but I nagged him until he gave it to me and got himself a new Bridgestone Super Speed, which I also still have. On Friday, August 21, 2020 at

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Carl - my apologies! I missed your post until now! Great photo, and what a gorgeous bike. Where is it now? Did you save it? “World’s finest bicycle precision mechanism” definitely surpasses Welded Huffy Desert Rose Garage Sale Special! Who loved bikes so much that they gifted you this treasure?

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Julian, your childhood looks to be the stuff of dreams. What a cool and eclectic group of kids - I think it’s rare that the older kids will let much younger kids join their group. Yes, your Clem would feel right at home - maybe this is why we like our Clems? They are a visit to our childhood

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I am loving all these old photos of folks on their childhood bikes. The stories of where people were riding and the freedom the bikes brought them is awesome. And the throwback styles are just so cool! Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 21, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Julian Westerhout wrote: > > Leah,

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Leah, yeah that's a tough wait - but after staring at the Platypus a bunch lately, I now prefer its aesthetics over the Cheviot quite a bit, and I hope you do too! The Gallop is a little behind the Platypus in revealed detail from Riv directly, so I would be surprised if it didn't come first -

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Ah, Jason, you’re from an even more northern town than I! The pic is too blurry to see, but I’m wondering if we also had the same haircut. 藍 I do feel like we’re fighting over who gets their production model first - will it be the horse or the platypus - no one can say. I’ve been waiting for

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I was wondering when we would hear the bringgg bringgg of Bicyclebelldingding, it's been a bit stuffy around here. My first bike memory is of an old white girls bike that my grandfather and I rescued from the local dump. He fixed it up and that's how I learned to ride. I think. There is a

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Brendanoid: I’d have never believed it but you have the photo. Age 3, landing jumps with no feet? Also, do I see a rear rack on that bike? YOU were more Riv than Riv. We should get patches made. Matthew: You gave the cutoff for “our” haircut at 1980. My photo was taken in 1986. North Dakota

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Matthew! You responded exactly in kind! Your story is fantastic, riveting - truly. And, fine, I admit it, your Schwinn Stingray was cooler than the Huffy Desert Rose. I would also like to point out that we had the same haircut. 藍藍藍 Sent from my iPad > On Aug 18, 2020, at 8:47 PM, Matthew