mike, We here in Missouri had a early start to summer. At this point we've already done the Tour de Hills, Three State Three Mountain Challenge, Horsey Hundred, Tour de Cure and a loaded bike tour between Kansas City and St Louis. All that and I'm still the infamous pot bellied cyclist. (thanks for the moniker grant) However only being 15 days into June and looking forward there is still a lot to come. June is mostly local rides and fun stuff, followed by the Denali Tour with Adventure Cycling in July, then the MS150 in September, C&O/Allegheny self contained first week of October, Hilly hundred third week of October I think and finishing up with the Tour de Cape.
Equipment wise my wife and I are expecting, (pause for effect) the delivery of the custom lugged Bilenky Tandem in the next month or two. The build has started and all looks good. I have a 68cm Schwinn Traveler on the work stand just back from paint ready for assembly if I had more time to work on instead of ride bikes. Not to mention every time I go to work on it I have to make a trip to the hardware store or am missing a nut or bolt. Seems everything is clamp on.. cable stops, water bottles, everything. Example the screws I need for the down tube mounts for the cable stops for some reason are american thread instead of metric and stopped me last night.. now off to hardware store again. Front derailur may be a problem too, though I'm attempting to ignore that for now. The Bombadil is in the stand on the other side being prepared to be boxed and checked out for Denali. I've been thinking about a fancier looking crank for my AHH but the 500 plus bucks keeps me from pulling the trigger. Other than that I may trim the heard and sell my mountain bike, and one of my fixed geared bikes that I just don't ride anymore. Summer in full force.. gotta love it. Kelly On Friday, June 15, 2012 8:44:01 AM UTC-5, Mike wrote: > > It's a beautiful sunny morning here in PDX. Sadly today is my Monday and > I'll be working through the weekend. Still, it's one of those days when you > can feel summer on the way. Looking through Manny's and other list members' > photos has me thinking about Rivish summer adventures. What are your plans? > s24o's? Mixed road explorations on new roads? Bike modifications? > > For myself I've got the Cascade 1200k next week which isn't very Rivish > but after that I plan on doing the majority of the rest of my summer riding > on platform pedals and in regular clothing. I'm definitely planning on > doing some s24o's in the Mt Hood NF. I'll probably do Larch Mtn a couple of > times. While it's a long ride from my house to the summit and back (80 > miles) there's nothing to keep one from just going at a reasonable pace, > making a day of it and enjoying the ride. > > As for bike mods? I'm all fired up about kickstands. I may put them on all > my bikes. I put a double legger on the Hilsen yesterday and love it. Most > likely that kickstand will go on my LHT and I'll get a single legger for > the Hilsen. Hell, when I was on a 600k brevet last year I saw one of the > faster rides had one on his bike. I was standing around looking for a place > to put my bike when he rolled up to the control, put the kickstand up, got > his card signed and went on his way. There was something so incongruent > about the kickstand and his bike and yet it all made perfect sense. > > I'll probably give Albatross bars a try on the Hilsen. I'm just really > intrigued by that set-up. > > With my growing appreciation for rambling through summer in regular > clothes I'm sure wishing RBW was selling their MUSA seersucker shirts. > Those sure were a great deal. They had some nice features. I did just order > a seersucker shirt with a fairly nice print through LL Bean. They have them > on sale so be aware. > > Okay, that enough out of me on the glorious caffeine fueled morning. > > --mike > -- 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/-/h2YoVLmYRGkJ. 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.
