So 2 weeks ago I got the lust for some 26" fun and hung the AHH out there on the trade hook fishing for some Atlantis.
As it turns out I get a snappy email off the bat asking if I might have interest in an All Rounder? Ummmm YEP. We quickly hammered out a grocery list trade and BOOM...off to UPS. Got the frame and extra bits Tuesday. Lets just put it this way...I could not have dreamed of a more exact answer to my wishes. And the deal was made extra pleasant having a professional, courteous, and enthusiastic person to deal with on the other side of the computer webz. Thanks again...you know who you are. Happily, we exchanged nearly identical parts as to keep from needing additional purchase to re-build the bikes. Frames/wheels/brakes traded, everything else swapped over. Thumbs up. So I got her built and took the maiden voyage as my commute to work yesterday. I received the wheels with a 1.1" slicks that I kept on there for the shake down, although I plan to run a fatter semi-knobby maybe like a town and country (or group recommendation??). Basically everything came directly off my Hilsen and swapped right over. I opted to go back to my favorite mustache bar set up, though I may use my dirt drop stem in the future. The only thing I didnt use from the Hilsen was the Paul Racer brakes, which I will sell/trade to get some Neo Retro cantis. (I wanna be like cyclotourist) ;) By the end of the day yesterday I rambled around for 50+ miles riding my "long commute" home over bike path, surface streets, dirt service roads, and single track. Truly "All Round". For grins today I swapped out the tires to some 2.1 MTB knobbies I had just so I could bask in the clearance and badassery of the thing. Check it out. I'll keep adding to the set and follow up with impressions. Monster A/R <http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7267/6860650144_3fd1cbb6d8_b.jpg> First ride and misc<http://www.flickr.com/photos/42027576@N00/sets/72157629645525001/with/6860650144/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/1pcT9U7T0vcJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
