As I procrastinate about what I should be doing, here is what is in my garage, my shed, and my basement, depending on where they're at in stages of repair, tweaking, or getting ridden. Riv content: all but one are steel, and most of them are lugged. My collection has grown and shrunk over the years, but three bikes is where I tend to hover. Road, commuter, and mountain-y.
My long-term bikes: 65cm 1983 Specialized Expedition with an e-assist front hub and battery in a Revelate bag. Stealth e-bike, main commuter for my long hilly commute. 62cm 1991 Bstone RB-T, repainted and with a Bilenky low trail fork. The bike that makes me say "ahhhh" nearly every time I get on for a ride. New arrival: 1990ish 22" Trek 950. Latest attempt to find love with a fat tire 26" bike. Had a 930 briefly a couple years ago that had a too-long Kona P2 fork that goofed up the steering, otherwise I was surprised how much I liked it. Hoping this will be as nice and steer good too. Also my experiment to see if shorter cranks will bother me; have a pair of old Ritchey microdrive cranks in 172.5 that are too cool not try. Spousal and kids' bikes: 19" 1992 Trek 750. Wife's. Lugged steel, bullmoose bars. Neat bike. Replaced a pretty red XO-3 that had TCO and squirrely handling. 21" Diamondback Apex. Full 7-speed Deore. Bought for myself, decided it was too small, gave to son who needed a new bike. Very solid, good handling, good looking bike. Wish it fit me. 17.5" Fisher MTB. Disc brakes. A curb find (neighbor's kid outgrew it). Nice bike, other son has almost outgrown it. 17" Diamond Apex with smoke paint and straight fork. Cool little bike from CL I recently got for my daughter as a campus bike. Set up as a 1x7. 19" Trek 520 from the lugged years. Solid little touring bike. Daughter's bike, too nice to take to college. Needs a repaint and has a replacement fork that is not the best. Fisher Aquila. Curb find from way back when. Now has XT and Dura Ace hubs on Campy 26" rims. Daughter's other bike, wheels are too nice for college... :) The rest is mostly OT, just while I'm typing wanted to list all the bikes I can remember passing through my shop in the last 20 years or so. Recently departed: Big old Trek 850 from the first year of production. Too tall for me to ride comfortably off road, replaced by slightly smaller 950 above. Sole Rivendell: Briefly owned an orange canti Sam. Surprised how little I liked the color since orange is otherwise my favorite color for anything, not just bikes, and found it too stiff for my taste so sold it a couple years ago. Departed Bstones and other lugged bikes I still like to talk about: 1989 55cm MB-2 (my first good steel bike, planed for me when I was younger and stronger, hooked me on steel bikes, not sure why I sold it), 1994 62cm RB-1 with 8-speed Superbe Pro (prettiest bike ever), 1992 62cm RB-2 blue and white, 1978 65cm Trek 710 (besides the MB-2 the only bike I've sold that I've kind of wished I hadn't), 1983 65cm Trek 720 (nice but slow), 1982 65cm Trek 614 (whippy frame, ghost shifted like mad), 1983 65cm Trek 700 (hmm, do I like old lugged Treks or something? repainted this one ugly, prompting me to sell it before giviing it a chance), 1983 62cm Specialized Sequoia (brief stop here before finding its forever home with another bob), 1992 23" Trek 930 mentioned above. Other departed cool bikes: Specialized Stumpjumpers (2) - a 22" from 1983 or so, and a 21.5: from the early 90s. Schwinn Homegrowns (2) - rigid maroon and gray bassboat paint, singlespeed. Super light, super stiff. The other was orange bass boat full-sus, pretty nice bike overall, very light for full-sus. Trek Y-22, horrible handling off road, actually used as a commuter for a while with slicks and the sus locked out. Bontrager Race XL. Orange. Didn't like the handling and the short head tube. Dan in WI, who thinks he's done shuffling bikes for a while. -- 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.
