This is totally awesome, enjoy in good health! (I have to laugh about the voicemail comment. My wife is a teacher and it's fruitless to leave her a VM if I expect any response)
On May 20, 12:57 am, Manuel Acosta <manueljohnaco...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Nothing beats New Bike Day. Rode the new bike to work. It was funny because > my student's seem more excited about the bike then I am. LIke any new > shiny thing with wheels, all the kids wanted to ride it. I'm not good at > describing the feel of a new steel bike so I'll quote some of the things > the kids say. " So smooth", " The pedals are smart", " This bike feels so > right!" was the general conversation after students took turns riding it > around the school. So since school got out early I took the long way home. > Decided to see if there was a way to bike from Ed Levin to Mission Peak. > There is but not an easy way. The maiden bike voyage turned into a maiden > hike the bike uphills. But the new bike got dirty so all was well. > > It's kind of hard to describe how guilt ridden I felt having to receive > such a nice gift. Call it my stubbornness to accept help or my pride of > having to try and deal with my mistakes on my own. Having gotten to talk to > a bunch of people on the forum in person they really helped me understand > that it's okay to accept other people's help. Grant put in better words > "Everybody who helps you will be getting more out of it than they're > giving, so you can legitimately think of this as a gift the givers are > giving to themselves." It's interesting to note that despite how amazing > this gesture is that the lovely folks at Rivendell HQ didn't make a huge > deal about it. Which made me feel a lot more comfortable about accepting > the bike, since it was done a month ago. (alas I don't check my voice > messages) It was funny because of how awkward I felt during the last few > months about the bike I didn't really have the courage to ask about the > progress or if it was even done. I figured when the bike was ready and the > time was right it would be done. > This bike is more meaningful to me knowing that so many people were willing > to contribute in so many ways. It's hard to even express a really thank you > over a simple forum, so I'll just do it through pictures. > > Because pictures proved how grateful I am.http://flic.kr/s/aHsjzqBUdq > > -Manny "Now to get it dirty" Acosta -- 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-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.
