I used to own two Black Mountain Road bikes. Both 59cm, both orange. One lives at my mom's house and is set up as an all purpose road bike. The other, at my house, used to be set up as a racier, lighter stripped down road bike. I ran across an iBob lister who wanted a Black Mountain road frame for a little less than retail, and we struck a deal. I took those dollars and my Hail Mary dollars and my Rivendollars to get a Leo Roadini frameset, and I picked that up today. The build will be exactly what I had on my Black Mountain, except it'll have a quill stem and a 26.8mm seatpost. The result will be a still-sporty road bike, but one that's a little more upright and civilized. I think of it as having a vibe similar to what we used to call a "sport touring" bike in the 1980s. My still-new Legolas will be my aggro-race-bike. I expect to get right into the build tonight, since I have everything. Fun detail: the quill stem will be a Nitto-Ritchey-Force from a 1993 XO-1. I haven't planned out the fit in a super detailed way, but I might end up with the stem totally slammed. This 57 has a tall headtube. This frame will allow me to get the bars WAY up, if and when I need to do that. For now, I expect that they'll be up even when they're down.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA P.S. To their credit, multiple Riv employees asked "What are you buying this for? You've got a road bike!" When I explained the "trade", then they were like "Oh, OK, that makes sense then" -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
