Oh, and back on topic, found this yesterday following up on a builder featured in the current Bicycling Quarterly:
http://lyonsport.com/web/stems.html Lyons has come up with a very interesting adjustable quill stem. For less than $90.00 you get an interesting (if not completely attractive) nickel plated stem that allows you to very quickly move your bars closer and further and higher and lower. Pretty cool, imo. On Dec 26, 8:24 am, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > Picking a good line through the slush was almost like riding singletrack. > > The > > Albatross bars I put on the bike last week worked well in the snow. > > Riding in the snow is not that bad. The problem in Chicago is the > streets for the most part are relatively narrow. When you get over 18 > " of snow without melting the plows leave ever larger piles of the > stuff along the sides of the streets. Those piles freeze, basically > becoming unridable icebergs collapsing the riding space on the > street. The result is bike and car are on the same lanes. I am as > comfortable riding with cars as a biker should be. Having cars > immediately behind me on ice covered streets is something I don't want > to become accustomed to. > > Any how, we are finally getting a warm up. That means ice rink > streets today. But maybe by some time next week there will be enough > street to venture forth. > > On Dec 25, 12:26 pm, Mike <mjawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm stuck working today. I noodled into work on my Surly with 700c x > > 44 WTB Mutano Raptors. They worked well in the slushy icyness. Picking > > a good line through the slush was almost like riding singletrack. The > > Albatross bars I put on the bike last week worked well in the snow. > > > As for planing... Who cares. I was having a lot of fun just being out > > on my bike. I'm now trapped inside for 12hrs. > > > --mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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-bunch@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
