I managed to get a lot of Work done, knock out 130 mi on the bike(s), repair a bike I thought was going to be a major chore, yesterday ramrodded 12 schools putting 1380 baby rainbow trout that they had raised from eggs in their classrooms since January, and got back on the bike today. On Monday's ride, my NOS Cyclone GT broke its main spring - I was in the home stretch, 3 miles from the trailhead, Put the chain on big-big to avoid cutting the chain, and limped home. But wait a minute, this NOS RD has over 20,000 mi on it...
<https://imgur.com/6cVfOJ1.jpg> and I figured this out - instead of spending $200 for another Cyclone GT, bought a short cage NOS for $60, and rebuilt it with my long cage, so I got a clean derailleur body and parallelogram, new spring, new jockey wheels <https://imgur.com/vdxHN2e.jpg> <https://imgur.com/IzO63Jn.jpg> replaced my dead brake hoods from stores at the same time, and all new cables (yeah, there was a Tuesday ride in there, too) Lite lunch on Thursday's ride <https://imgur.com/Fxv443G.jpg> <https://imgur.com/smpq3tI.jpg> <https://imgur.com/YgahyWY.jpg> 11 of the 12 schools on Saturday drove 4 hours from Houston, and ok and I met them at another BBQ stand for lunch before we headed to the river - still have 8 schools to go over the next month, including 2 elementary school field trips <https://imgur.com/ujU1mhv.jpg> <https://imgur.com/HuQc3mD.jpg> <https://imgur.com/RaOWBUD.jpg> On this morning's crack of dawn sprint from Alamo Heights to the Alamodome, my buddy Tad debuted his recently restored Mussolini-era Umberto Dei condorino - of all his cool bikes, this is the only one I covet. <https://imgur.com/Bt0hJmh.jpg> <https://imgur.com/dUaOd7b.jpg> <https://imgur.com/LekyW4K.jpg> I was followed home by a free Santana tandem project - long term <https://imgur.com/zTvd4xP.jpg> But the highlight of my week was a spirited late morning greenway ride with my daughter the champ - she's riding the '86 Team Fuji (Ultegra 9sp) that she built for a summer project 3 years ago <https://imgur.com/b5TOXhO.jpg> A trail steward chased us for 8 miles, and when we all stopped together at a street crossing, exclaimed we had given her the best bike workout she can ever remember. Then we scraped her off. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
