I must have been ready with my build kit. About 30 minutes after getting it into the garage, here she is:
<http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7388/12828625763_c08eaa6099_z.jpg> On Thursday, February 27, 2014 8:34:35 PM UTC-8, cyclot...@gmail.com wrote: > > An angel just got it's wings! > > Cheers, > David > > "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - Seth Vidal > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> >> >> 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: >> >> <http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2662/4201002059_fe813d0b60_z.jpg> >> >> >> 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: >> >> <http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4095/5604248171_e9f4b2942c_z.jpg> >> >> >> 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! >> >> <http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2892/12827065683_922e9cf760_z.jpg> >> >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
