| That was a great ride. We should do it again one of these decades.
I keep meaning to ditch my flickr account but it proves useful AND searchable so I can find things, which makes it hard to beat.
Tarik On Jul 12, 2023, at 1:57 PM, Jamie Hascall <mr.wasc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow Tarik! Thanks for posting those pictures! What I find really interesting is that I'm riding the Jamis that I bought when I first got to Santa Fe, and had not yet bought my Saluki. I was just a Riv wannabe at that point. Fun to remember the wind and dust of those Spring New Mexico rides.
Cheers! Jamie
On Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at 9:38:18 PM UTC-7 tariksa...@gmail.com wrote:
3/16 of ought eight for the NM Bob ride. Ryan, Patrick, Jamie, Me, Chad, someone on a very nice legolas who probably wisely bailed early.
Jamie! I'm sorry, I forgot; the name comes back to me now. The photos show your wife and not you -- now I understand. I wish I could post the video, but even that, which does give an indication of the wind's strength, does not show the compact-car-size tumbleweed clusters that we encountered.
I hope the riding in the PNW is as enjoyable as it is here -- at least, here on less windy days.
P Yes Patrick, I remember a particularly windy Spring ride with you and Tarik and a few others on the Bosque trail. We were assaulted by huge tumbleweeds on the way downstream, but on the way back the wind had shifted just enough to be fully behind us and gave us a mighty boost for the uphill run. That was probably that 2008 ride you tried to post. I do miss a lot about the riding we did in NM but between jobs and a need for a moister climate we ended up back in the PNW. Glad to hear you're still cranking.
Cheers! Jamie
And that Motobecane is still seeing regular service here in NorCal, now as a rendered three-speed. Still a great bike—Patrick didn’t mention the full Reynolds 531 tubeset and the old school Nervex lugs. Combined with classic French geometry, it makes for a very nice ride.
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Forgot to add the punch line, as usual, which is that I realized that hanging my 2003 Riv road custom on the wall while I did most of my riding, commuting, on that beater Motobecane, was depriving me of needed fun, so I had local builder Dave Porter convert the Riv into a fixed gear commuter and sold off the Motobecane. The 2003 now-fixed custom saw several years 15-20-mile 1-way commuting duty including bus bike racks, then many grocery errand runs after I started working at home, until it was replaced by a thinner-wall, narrower-gauge tout 531 Chauncey Matthews clone in 2020.
Jamie: I'd guess that the baskets were as material in your "best commuter" award as the bicycle; lovely. Can you name and perhaps provide a link to the source?
You are in Santa Fe? I'm in the bosque in Albuquerque. We had a (IIRC) pre-RBW-list NM iBob ride 15 years ago; perhaps there are enough iBobbers and RBW-listers to hold another Riv/Riv-like cyclist get-together.
I tried to attach a very short video from that 2008 ride, but the system kicked it back for being too big. I did wear a Rivendell wool jersey and rode a Rivendellianesque if not Rivendellian 1973 Motobecane Grand Record beater commuter fixed gear.
Patrick "68 now, 53 then" Moore who rode a 67" fixed gear into a howling NM spring Southerly.
Here are a couple of pictures of Betsy with her Glorious in its glory days. Posting these is much more satisfying than the faded glory photo I posted earlier. It took a bit of digging in her archive to find these. <6E3BCDA7-536D-4785-B781-0DA184BA25CB.jpeg>
Winner of "Best Commuter Bike" at Santa Fe bicycle fest
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Our pair of Rivs, ready to ride!
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