[RBW] Re: Looking for an all-road bike to hire for a week in Boston area

2020-02-14 Thread Mike Blackwell
Urban Adventours (https://www.urbanadventours.com/) in downtown Boston rents decent road and cyclocross bikes. Friendly folks. A little on the spendy side but you might be able to work out something reasonable if you're renting the bike for a while. Worth checking out, anyway. That time of

[RBW] Re: Walking boots -- not entirely unrelated to cycling

2020-02-21 Thread Mike Blackwell
I highly recommend Limmer Boots, especially the Ultra-Light model. Limmer is the Rivendell of the boot world (or, given their heritage, perhaps Riv is the Limmer of the bike world might be more accurate!). http://www.limmerboot.com/ -- You received this message

[RBW] Re: Silver 2 shifters on Shimano barend pods

2020-03-30 Thread Mike Blackwell
t; On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 3:52:01 PM UTC-7, Mike Blackwell wrote: > > I'm replacing the worn out circa ~2000 Shimano barend shifters (DuraAce > I think) on my Redwood with Silver 2's. I was thinking I could keep the > Shimano bar pods and just swap out the shifters, but now