Hey Bill, Seems like your Rodini album is not public. The link showed me '403 Not found'
On Thursday, 20 September 2018 20:22:33 UTC-7, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Short answer: > > I like my Roadini very much. > > > TL/DR answer: > I got started cycling in the Summer of 1982. I was 13, between 7th and > 8th grade. I was hero-worshipping two friends from church. Kirk was my age > and Keith was one year older. The three of us all saved up and bought bikes > around the same time and we were all kind of a mini-club in > ourselves. Whatever one of us did, all of us did. We didn't read any > magazines really, and there certainly was nothing cycling related on TV or > in the newspaper. My parents didn't know anything about it. Anything I knew > was what Keith and Kirk told me or what they told me at Village > Schwinn. That early 80s period is one that I still think of as a golden age > for cycling. Japan was fully in their stride manufacturing spectacular > quality components up and down the price spectrum. There were sensational > lugged steel frames from Japan and the USA, and the 'racing' models were > squeezed into the corner where they belong. There were also some awesome > touring and camping models, but the healthy middle from ~$300 to ~$800 was > a luscious spread of sport-touring machines. I saved up and bought the $320 > Univega Sportour, which was the cheapest Univega with 700c wheels. It was > "gunmetal grey". I used it to get around everywhere, and took it on 20-50 > mile rides all around Orange County. When I started high school, they bused > my Yorba Linda neighborhood across three towns to a school in Fullerton. I > couldn't stand the bus, so after 1 week of that mess, I rode every single > day, 7 miles each way, on that bike. I bought a Blackburn Low Rider for it > and ran some small panniers and did overnighters with Kirk and/or > Keith. Later in the 1980s I started working at Village Schwinn and got into > the wanna-be racer stuff, with Jock Boyer, Alexi Grewal, Davis Phinney and > Greg Lemond, etc. My Grilver Leo is the return back to that Univega > Sportour, an all purpose road bike that I can take on any road ride a > normal person could ever want to take a road bike on. It's a decidedly > sporty, athletic, sport touring machine. If your cycling never involves > pinning an actual number to your jersey, you aren't a racer. The Leo is all > the road bike any non-racer would ever need. > > This should be a link to my build-photo: FLICKR LINK > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/40529465200> > > Bill Lindsay > 57cm Grilver Leo > 75.5cm Saddle Height > El Cerrito, CA > > On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 6:59:52 PM UTC-7, Jonathan K. wrote: > >> I'm trying to convince myself that I do/don't need a Roadini. I have a >> Sam that I bought to be my road bike, but it's been gradually taking on >> more of a beast of burden role. Originally quite minimalist, I am now >> running racks and bags fore and aft for commuting. So, I'd like to get a >> bike to fill the role of lightweight, long distance, weekend rider. >> >> The Roadini has been out for a while now, and there seems to be a fair >> amount of them out in the world. So, for anyone who has been riding their >> Roadini for a while, how do you like it? I'm interested in thoughts, >> impressions, reviews, comparisons to other road bikes, etc. Would you >> recommend one over other bikes to someone who wants a simple road bike for >> (relatively) fast long distance riding? Pictures are encouraged, of course! >> >> -- 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.
