Thanks everyone for the nice comments :) JohnS: Nice build! Yeah, your Shogun is quite similar to our SR. The SR is Champion tubing, too.
On Friday, October 28, 2022 at 1:20:20 PM UTC-4 JohnS wrote: > Hello Eric, > > Very impressed with your SR build and your shop! Looks like everything has > a place and everything is in it's place. I 'm going to have to work a > little harder to bring my builds up to the level of yours, the homemade > badge puts it over the top. > > I built up a Shogun Cr-Mo 400 mixte for my wife almost 2 yrs ago. It looks > very similar to the your SR, lugs, stays, accent paint, pin strips all look > the same, the big difference is the Shogun's tubing is Tange Champion #5. > Any who, high lights for the Shogun build include Mafac Racers with VO > adjustable toe in brake pad holders, Coda brake levers, Deore XT shift > levers, Ultegra FD, STX RD, Shimano 7 speed freewheel, Sugino 165 cranks, > 46/34 chain rings, 700C Wolber GTX rims with Suntour GPX hubs, RH Stampede > Pass tires, EPI grips (from Rivendell), Specialized dirt drop stem an a > no-name riser bar. All works very well together and my wife is very happy > with it. > > Got to keep them vintage mixtes rolling! > > JohnS > > [image: Shogun_0.jpg] > > [image: Shogun_1.jpg] > > [image: Shogun_2.jpg] > On Friday, October 28, 2022 at 11:13:15 AM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> That's as lovely as the fall scenery in your other post. >> >> I was reading Classics Rendezvous post earlier this afternoon on >> resto-modding old ubikes to give them new leases for everyday, urban >> riding; not the usual classic period racing bikes the site is devoted to. >> Someone posted a photo of a lovely Dawes mixte, *toute* *531* IIRC, and >> very nicely built up, and I sighed and thought how nice it would be to have >> a nice-riding mixte frame built up with good parts *and decent tires!!!** as >> an upright addition to my small stable. Nice riding mixte with RH tires and >> an obscure Sa 3-speed hub -- lovely. >> >> Your SR is a worthy peer. >> >> ** I've owned and refurbished at least 1 mixte (Nishiki; and very many >> other roadsters, Raleigh and Schwinn and clones) and while it turned out >> well, it just wasn't a joy to ride, so I sold it on. I daresay that the >> pedestrian tires were largely the culprit. >> >> On Sun, Oct 23, 2022 at 6:10 PM Eric Marth <eric...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Last fall my partner inherited an old bike. It's an SR frame that her >>> dad purchased for her mom brand new in San Diego in 1987. It was >>> over-geared, set up with narrow tires on 27" wheels and needed a few more >>> changes to make it more comfortable and practical. I set out for nice wide >>> gearing, bars with more sweep back and maxing out the clearance for plump >>> 38mm tires. >>> >>> The build video is up here <https://youtu.be/Z9O-J5JbHfE>, detailing >>> all of the changes along the way. >>> >>> Cheers! >>> >>> [image: SR1.jpg] >>> >>> [image: SR5.jpg] >>> >>> [image: SR7.jpg] >>> >>> -- >>> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/abb2d7b7-fd3b-442b-82ec-59d9e4e03291n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/abb2d7b7-fd3b-442b-82ec-59d9e4e03291n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/fbea03fb-7e7d-41d5-97f9-d55857318ac2n%40googlegroups.com.
