Since a few have mentioned StingRays, I can't resist the urge to show my '72 (Disc) Orange Krate, which left my stable years ago, but I still have these cool memories of it...
<https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p1YT2O0Lp2U/UxS0agWGCjI/AAAAAAAAEhY/gfP6gDqdL50/s1600/OrangeKrate1.JPG> On Sunday, March 2, 2014 10:14:07 PM UTC-5, Tim McNamara wrote: > > Wow. Great topic. How far back to I go? Well, let’s move from beyond > the Stingray years into when I started to want a road bike. Back then they > came in lugged steel, fillet brazed steel, welded or Schwinn’s > electro-forged construction. Lugged and fillet brazing were cool and the > hallmark of quality (not really, but it was easy to generalize when I was > 13). Basically, the bikes I think are great now are pretty much the bikes > I thought were great then. I made a detour 1992-2000 into racing and got > into brifters, dual pivots and skinny hard tires; I quickly got over that > after I stopped racing so that I could go back to enjoying riding a bike. -- 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.
