I changed my '72 Sports Tourer from 27" to 700C when the soft old spokes
started breaking. I liked the Maillard hubs, slotted like Phil Rivy's, and the
14-34 freewheel was perfect, so I cut out the spokes, polished up the hub
components, and shipped them to the best wheelbuilder in the land. For
This past Monday a very helpful and friendly orthopedic surgeon kindly
harvested a tendon from somewhere inside my right foot and used it to
replace a long missing ligament that used to stabilize my ankle when
walking. He also scraped out a good deal of osteo-arthritic buildup that
had been li
