awesome!!!
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Robert F. Harrison <rfharri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Most of the time I'm pretty anonymous when riding around town on my bikes. > There aren't a lot of Rivs in Honolulu so they do stand out, but truthfully > most folks don't pay much attention. Sometimes, however, you run into a > bunch of folks that do... > > On the last Friday of the month here in Honolulu we have a semi-organized > holoholo ride (holoholo loosely translates to 'going out no place in > particular for fun' usually driving, riding, whatevahs). Think Critical > Mass without either the critical or the mass and leavened with Aloha: > > "Holoholo Ride takes place every last Friday of the month and is open to > anyone who wishes to join a fun, cycling, law conscious group of cycling > enthusiasts for a cruise around Honolulu. The route starts at the State > Capitol and ends at the Eat The Streets Food Truck event." > > http://www.hbl.org/holoholoride > > Back to the story...I'd headed out after work for my own holoholo ride, > just taking in the sights, grabbing a bite, having coffee, viewing the > waterfront, that sort of thing and ended up at our local Eat the Street > monthly event. Basically it's a monthly street food event. Lot's of folks > attend. > > http://www.streetgrindz.com/eatthestreet/ > > Well being Bike Month our local bike org (hbl.org) had set up a bicycle > valet service. > > I cruised by for some dinner and to visit a friend working the valet > service when the Holoholo Ride folks showed up. They had a great collection > of sensible bikes for the most part with fenders, lights, baskets, and > such, along with the requisite fixies and such. > > They saw my Hunqapillar and...well I wasn't so anonymous anymore. I spent > a good twenty minutes showing off the bike and answering questions, and > even got photographed by a fellow named Sau Hsu who has a blog of bikey > stuff. You can see his photos of my bike here: > > > http://nextelevatortrip.blogspot.com/2013/06/everyday-including-holidays.html > > One of the folks, and I'm afraid I didn't catch his name, says he'll be > getting Hillbourne sometime this year and asked what I thought of them. As > I almost got one myself but opted for the Hunq I just had to say go for it. > > Mostly the folks on the ride were in their 20s and 30s so it looks like > lugged steel has a great future. > > I think I may have promised to show up at the next ride on my Quickbeam. > :-) > > Aloha, Bob > > -- > Robert Harrison > Honolulu, HI > rfharri...@gmail.com > statrix.com > > -- > 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
