Beefy, all-black tires don't look bad...at least with my quickbeam. Silver and black make a great color combo.
Here's my 54cm Quickbeam with 700x40c Marathon Supremes... http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qFZwyP3dFT61VHtOn9VGwQ?feat=directlink I barely have any (if any) standover clearance with these big puffy tires but I love how the bike rides over the rough city roads in Chicago. -Rocky On Jun 22, 7:10 pm, Angus <angusle...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Nice bike Bruce! You win the "Beefiest Tires I've Seen on a > Rambouillet" award. It's refreshing to see someone doing something a > bit different. > > I'm running 32s with fenders, I do have 37s on the Atlantis...smooth > tires! > > Thanks for the post. > > Angus > > On Jun 22, 6:47 pm, Bruce <fullylug...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Inspired by all the great new build pics, I tweaked the boo yay last night. > > Stripped off the interrupter brake handles (gives more room on the size 42 > > bars) and replaced the brake cables and housings of course. (Only 1 cable > > of the original factory set was rusting, but I replaced both with nice NOS > > Suntour stuff.) Had to unwrap the bars to do it, so the re wrap is with > > some Brooks black tape bought on sale a while ago and waiting for the oppty > > to arise. The factory wheelset is now in the attic, and these are Velocity > > Aeroheat / Phil wheels running 37 mm all black Paselas. I finished it off > > with a just received (from the May 1 order window opening) Acorn tri-fold. > > (I like the bag btw) Presented for your possible interest.... > > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/9535...@n07/3652390292/in/photostream/- Hide > >quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
