Bill: What a story! I think this bike is your destiny. I can almost hear the cogs clicking into place as it comes together.
dougP On Friday, February 28, 2014 2:45:43 PM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Another tiny 'stars aligning' moment. You may have noticed the wheelset > on the Hillborne has rims with Ceramic sidewalls. I rolled by CyclePath in > Hayward to re-stock straddle cables and took the longshot on their KoolStop > board. Lo and behold, they had two pairs of KoolStop Green (ceramic > formula) V-Inserts. What are the odds of finding those in-stock at a shop? > Pretty long odds. > > Funny side story. The guy behind the counter has worked there at > CyclePath for a long time, certainly multiple years. When I asked him for > straddle cables, he walked in back, and came back out with three different > things. He said "I'm not too familiar with these, are any of these what > you need?". > > Am I a retro-grouch just because I use cantilever brakes now? > Or am I a retro grouch because I use rim brakes at all? > > I will at least give him credit that one of the three things he brought > out was what I needed and all three things vaguely qualified as straddle > cables. > > On Friday, February 28, 2014 12:37:10 PM UTC-8, Shoji Takahashi wrote: >> >> "I hope it takes you on many wonderful adventures." Indeed. >> Shoji >> >> >> >> -- 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.
