When I built up my Bleriot in 2007, as well as it being my rando bike, it was also to be my commute bike. Friend: "you are going to commute on a RIVENDELL?" Me: "it is a bicycle. Get over it".
Eventually I moved on to a custom rando bike, and Bleriot acquired a kickstand :-) From the start, it had fenders and racks, and in Phase 2 (about 5000 miles along), generator lighting. I no longer commute, but the Bleriot is my go-to bike. I can ride it anywhere, haul stuff in the panniers (grocery run!), and it is my summer vacation bike. Gets dumped on the beach, and might even ride a 200k permanent. In Jan 2013, I was commuting to work, and was struck by a car. I walked away from it, but the Bleriot didn't. Framebuilder friend of mine told me it WAS repairable, and after a conversation with Keven, off it went. It now has a new (Saluki) fork, and is new tubing from the S&S couplers forward. And a spiffy new paint job - somewhere between Sam and Homer blue. It has always attracted completely unsolicited "that is a really nice/pretty bike!" comments. https://www.flickr.com/photos/lynnefitz/sets/72157634204220895/ -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
