Ryan - those bikes are beauties! Love the color contrast between the 3. That shiny green in particular is stunning.
Hope to see more photos of them when they’re out and in use! On Friday, April 18, 2025 at 3:49:59 PM UTC-4 Ryan wrote: > Mike...busted! From a prior season and I shouldn't the storing bike like > that on those flat tires...would be better if I replaced the tube and > actually hung the bike up like a civilized person would do. > > TBH though I am under no financial pressure to sell, I know that probably > the right thing to do is release this collection out into the wild because > they really aren't being ridden enough. I don't delude myself that I'll > make the big bucks selling them and finding a good home for them should be > the point. But emotionally, I'm not quite ready to let them go > yet.Hoarding? Selfishness? Nostalgia?(my late partner built up the 1st 2 > and I have a more substantail riding history with those) ? It's > complicated. > > Dear Reader, judge me as you will. Just don't be too hard on me :) > > On Friday, April 18, 2025 at 2:31:19 PM UTC-5 Ryan wrote: > >> It is a custom mixte...more Glorius-inspired. I ordered it from Grant on >> December 31 2015 as my retirement bike. Frame by Mark Nobilette, painted by >> Joe Bell wheels by Rich Lesnick, assembled by Mark Abele and kind >> co-curated by with their recommendations.Since I was still working, I want >> hard on part-speccing ...and thus did not spare the horses. Not as >> glamorous as your bikes, Leah or other builds I see and admire...but >> totally in line with my personal aesthetic. I finally got it in early 2017. >> From time to time it cropped up in Grant's Blahg at various stages of the >> build. >> >> Have not fully dialled it in...love the look of the bars, but they took >> getting used to (moustache-bar, dropped bar usually) and I feel like I >> could use more setback, so I have a luuged seatpost that I intend to instal >> >> On Friday, April 18, 2025 at 2:07:07 PM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! >> wrote: >> >>> GASP! That gorgeous mixte!!!!!!!! When was it made? It looks like a >>> custom Platypus! >>> >>> On Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:20:49 AM UTC-4 Ryan wrote: >>> >>>> Ha Ha...I hear you >>>> >>>> I live on the top floor of a duplex. >>>> >>>> I have a garage where I lock up my X0-1 and PX-10 SS >>>> >>>> The Rivendells live in my suite, since garages, even in my relatively >>>> safe neighbrhood in Winnipeg, have been broken into >>>> >>>> [image: AR and Road.jpg] >>>> >>>> These two bikes are OK to schlep up and down my stairs which are not >>>> super-wide >>>> >>>> [image: Mixte.jpg] >>>> >>>> >>>> My mixte, however, is a bit of a bugger >>>> >>>> >>>> -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b8aad0c0-9fa3-44b7-92b1-952d22abd5c4n%40googlegroups.com.
