I was so stoked to ride my Bombadil, I had just finished giving the Noodles a temp-tape wrap, when I decided to break tradition and skip photographing it... what I do with every bike I've ever built... That can wait til tomorrow... I needed to RIDE this baby. Tonight I took my favorite Bike n Brew ride on the Bombadil. I am fortunate to live close to the D&R Canal towpath in central NJ, which runs 75 miles from New Brunswick down to Trenton, then back up the Delaware River to Milford... I live just outside of Princeton, and rode a short segment (6+ miles), to a great little tavern/restaurant called the Rocky Hill Inn just a short pedal from the canal. It's got an awesome beer collection (about 20 different beers and ales on tap), and the food is sensational. Best of all it's a great evening ride along the canal. I met up with the wife, and we enjoyed a great dinner; I enjoyed an even better ride home (while my poor wife had to drive)...
Tonight there was a bright moon, which my Schmidt Edelux light, powered by a Shimano dynamo hub quickly cancelled out. Temperature was perfect (60 degrees) and the ride was awesome. Now I realize I'm preaching to the choir, but this ride was by far the smoothest, fastest and just BEST ride I've ever enjoyed on this stretch of path... I've done this ride many times on many different fat-tired bikes, including a Fargo (with 2.35 Big Apple tires, which I swore was the benchmark for smoothness), but the Bombadil (with Big Apple 2.0s) felt noticeably smoother.... not "ooo, new bike" smoother, just plain smoother and faster... there was really no comparison. I couldn't believe how the Bombadil literally soaked up the trail while barrelling ahead... Amazing. The Edelux light (mounted on the front of my Nitto Mini front rack, flooded the path ahead with super bright light. This is one awesome lighting setup. I'll post pics of my build on Flickr tomorrow... I'm running on Big Apples, with Noodle bars/baremd shifters, V-brakes, Sugino crank/ XTR derailleur, and a new semi-broken-in B17. Maybe it was the combination of the tires, the bars and the frame, but it felt so smooth, I was waiting for a jolt with every bump, but it never came.... Wow, what a great ride. Goodnight... ZZZzzzzzz..... -- 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.
