Nice write up anne. enjoy the bike. Jim D. Massachusetts --- On Sat, 5/1/10, Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Anne Paulson <anne.paul...@gmail.com> Subject: [RBW] First ride To: "rbw-owners-bunch" <rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 7:27 PM Today I picked up my little beauty, the green Roadeo my husband got me for my birthday. Naturally I didn't want to coop up the new arrival (or myself) in a car right away, so first we took a little jaunt up to the top of Mount Diablo, its ancestral homeland. What a perfect day! Not too hot, and plenty of orange poppies, purple lupine and yellow mustard remain from a beautiful flower year. The bike is splendid. Very, very comfortable; somehow, as with all Rivendells, the body position is exactly right. Gorgeous, with tan tape contrasting with the bright dark green paint. (I ordered a black Barley for it from Peter Jon White, but now I think a tan bag, or the green Barley, would look better. Oh well.) Wants to descend faster than I want to descend. Feels perfect when I'm out of the saddle. My friends that I ride with will be able to admire it from the rear. I still have to do some tweaking. Riv put on Jack Browns, which are fine tires but this bike, which is pretty much entirely for climbing on pavement, will get narrower tires to save weight, and the Jack Browns will go on some lesser bike. I rode today with toeclips because I didn't want to get used to clip-in pedals on a new bike on a longish ride, but Speedplay Frogs will go on it tonight or tomorrow. And the elderly saddlebag currently on it will be replaced by a spanking new, appropriately small Barley. But already it's great. -- -- Anne Paulson My hovercraft is full of eels -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
