In 2009 I became a Rivendell owner. I bought a 56cm Samuel Hillborne and
it kicked off my second-life in cycling. The reason I got a flickr account
was because of my Hillborne. Here's the first flickr photo I ever uploaded:
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I've done a lot of buying and selling of bikes. My Hillborne got built up
in a few different ways, in 2010 and 2011. One of the coolest was this
slick monstercross setup:
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Around that time (April 2011) we had scraped together every penny we had to
move up to a larger house. Amidst the scraping, I decided to sell the
Hillborne, with the notion that when I could afford it I would buy a 58cm
Atlantis to replace it. I sold it to a nice friend of a friend. I always
missed it a little bit.
Fast forward to 2013, I got the family to agree to send me to live-in
framebuilding school in Arizona. A two-week course building a lugged steel
frameset. As I thought about what I wanted and it was: a 700c road bike,
that'll take 38-40mm tires, cantilever brakes, 135mm rear end. Where my
Black Mountain is a great road bike for 28-32mm tires, I wanted a great
road bike for 35-45mm tires. I bought a set of 700x38 Soma C-Lines and
started pulling the build kit together. I had the full build kit done,
when it turned out that the scheduling for the frame building class didn't
work out, so we bagged that idea.
A little while later a little bird told me that the fellow who had bought
my Hillborne never got around to building it, so I reached out to him.
Sure enough it was still hung up in his den, and lo and behold he was
willing to sell it back to me for the same price I sold it to him for. So,
now I'm the re-owner of a lugged steel boomerang! Throw it away and three
years later it comes right back. Stay tuned for the build!
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