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JP got 2 new roadbikes for his birthday!
Yeah, my birthday was last week and the craziest of things happened. A
very weird celestial convergence. First, I decided that my tattered 20yearold Pro Miyata was embarrassing even for me and that to give retro a good name I had to ride a spiffy retro bike so I started looking for one and asking around. Sure enough I ran into a web-friend who had a mint 1985 Atala Pro he'd let me have very cheap. I said Let's do it! The next day another friend said Hey did you see the clean red 1992 Bridgestone RB1 with STI on ebay? Oh no! That would be a really nice relaxed road machine. I checked it out and finally won it for way cheap. So on my birthday 2 new roadbikes arrived in the UPS! FREAK OUT! I haven't had a new roadbike in 20 years! And both for the total price of a set of aero wheels. Man, these are sweet! So clean! No dirt or grease! Like new! What classy retro lugged steel styling! And the Atala came with a brand new team racing outfit! OK, if you don't believe me: here's a link to a webpage displaying all our main family bikes: http://outyourbackdoor.com/articles2004/jeff.bikes.html. Now what to do? Well, I'll ride em now thru spring and if I don't like one, I'll sell it. They both might need a little dialing in stem-wise. Who knows. The club dudes won't know what to think. (Where's that fast homeless guy?) I'm bike rich! I might have to get another jersey now for the red one. And maybe new shoes and helmet to replace my tattered 15yearold ones... Yeehaw! --JP |
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Jeff,
The 2 dogs look waaay healthier than you! You need to get out more, get some more exercise! Great bikes! You can't race Cat 1/Pro unless you replace the pedals with Campy Super Record & toe-clips, also you will be sure to want to have on, a pair of black wool cycling shorts, & a wool jersey. ;-)) Bridgestone was extremely popular here in Berkeley, for many years. The racers loved them. Hiroshi, at Jitensha Studio, sold a whole bunch for many years. Here, you still see them around. http://www.jitensha.com/eng/images/m...akumis-rbt.jpg Happy Birthday! Hang in there. Soon enough you will be of legal drinking age like the rest of us! Mark Jeff Potter wrote: Yeah, my birthday was last week and the craziest of things happened. A very weird celestial convergence. First, I decided that my tattered 20yearold Pro Miyata was embarrassing even for me and that to give retro a good name I had to ride a spiffy retro bike so I started looking for one and asking around. Sure enough I ran into a web-friend who had a mint 1985 Atala Pro he'd let me have very cheap. I said Let's do it! The next day another friend said Hey did you see the clean red 1992 Bridgestone RB1 with STI on ebay? Oh no! That would be a really nice relaxed road machine. I checked it out and finally won it for way cheap. So on my birthday 2 new roadbikes arrived in the UPS! FREAK OUT! I haven't had a new roadbike in 20 years! And both for the total price of a set of aero wheels. Man, these are sweet! So clean! No dirt or grease! Like new! What classy retro lugged steel styling! And the Atala came with a brand new team racing outfit! OK, if you don't believe me: here's a link to a webpage displaying all our main family bikes: http://outyourbackdoor.com/articles2004/jeff.bikes.html. Now what to do? Well, I'll ride em now thru spring and if I don't like one, I'll sell it. They both might need a little dialing in stem-wise. Who knows. The club dudes won't know what to think. (Where's that fast homeless guy?) I'm bike rich! I might have to get another jersey now for the red one. And maybe new shoes and helmet to replace my tattered 15yearold ones... Yeehaw! --JP |
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Jeff Potter wrote: Yeah, my birthday was last week and the craziest of things happened. A very weird celestial convergence. snip Dumbass - Who the **** cares about your new bikes? K. Gringioni. ps. I went out and bought some new cables for my bike the other day. They shift REALLY NEATO now! |
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Hey, what's wrong with the Miyata? I bought that same frame earlier this
year from Lou Deeter, on R.B.M., to build up as a sweet "retro" ride. Miyata, with that frame at least, did a fantastic job of combining Italian style (cut-outs in the lugs, BB shell, etc.) with high-quality Japanese workmanship. Haven't gotten around to building it yet - another winter project. Enjoy your new bikes, Jeff. Happy Birthday! -JJ "Jeff Potter" wrote in message om... Yeah, my birthday was last week and the craziest of things happened. A very weird celestial convergence. First, I decided that my tattered 20yearold Pro Miyata was embarrassing even for me and that to give retro a good name I had to ride a spiffy retro bike so I started looking for one and asking around. Sure enough I ran into a web-friend who had a mint 1985 Atala Pro he'd let me have very cheap. I said Let's do it! The next day another friend said Hey did you see the clean red 1992 Bridgestone RB1 with STI on ebay? Oh no! That would be a really nice relaxed road machine. I checked it out and finally won it for way cheap. So on my birthday 2 new roadbikes arrived in the UPS! FREAK OUT! I haven't had a new roadbike in 20 years! And both for the total price of a set of aero wheels. Man, these are sweet! So clean! No dirt or grease! Like new! What classy retro lugged steel styling! And the Atala came with a brand new team racing outfit! OK, if you don't believe me: here's a link to a webpage displaying all our main family bikes: http://outyourbackdoor.com/articles2004/jeff.bikes.html. Now what to do? Well, I'll ride em now thru spring and if I don't like one, I'll sell it. They both might need a little dialing in stem-wise. Who knows. The club dudes won't know what to think. (Where's that fast homeless guy?) I'm bike rich! I might have to get another jersey now for the red one. And maybe new shoes and helmet to replace my tattered 15yearold ones... Yeehaw! --JP |
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"Kurgan Gringioni" wrote in message oups.com... Jeff Potter wrote: Yeah, my birthday was last week and the craziest of things happened. A very weird celestial convergence. snip Dumbass - Who the **** cares about your new bikes? especially some old ass bikes Dave |
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Dumbass - Who the **** cares about your new bikes? K. Gringioni. Oh, oh. Looks like rec.bicycles.racing is suffering some anal leakage. BTW, I like the bikes, but you must have deceptively long legs, Jeff, to ride those frames. chris ne iowa |
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First, I decided that my tattered 20yearold Pro Miyata was
embarrassing even for me and that to give retro a good name I had to ride a spiffy retro bike so I started looking for one and asking around. I loved my old Miyata team that I bought for 10% less than wholesale from Great Lakes Cycling when I worked there Oh-so-many years ago. I finally bought a new bike when the fork wouldn't stay tight in the head tube - I think the head tube "stretched". Loved the gearing. That was 10 years ago, and I'm still not used to the gearing on my now 10-year-old Trek 5200... Mike P.S. How goes VOMIT? http://www.nordicskiracer.com/Training/2005/VOMIT.asp |
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(Jeff Potter) wrote in message . com...
Yeah, my birthday was last week and the craziest of things happened. A very weird celestial convergence. First, I decided that my tattered 20yearold Pro Miyata was embarrassing even for me and that to give retro a good name I had to ride a spiffy retro bike so I started looking for one and asking around. http://outyourbackdoor.com/articles2004/jeff.bikes.html. Jeff, what's the deal? You actually look normal... Nah, just kidding... Hey, I like the new retro bikes. I think you have a future as a bike collector. I've got a '92 Paramount and a 2000 (Reynolds 853) Schwinn Peloton frame that I had built up with Ultegra triple components. I sold that stuff since I'm not a big triple fan. I'm building it back up with black Shimano 105. It will look pretty cool since the frame is pearl yellow. Also, I went to the Veloswap in Chicago last weekend. I picked up a 1998 Schwinn Paramount (Tim Isaac, Match Cycles Reynolds 853) frame. Tim Isaac made some of the nicest Paramounts ever. Ben Serrota built Paramounts out of Titanium for a few years. Those are fantastic too as are the ones made by Waterford... I was going to sell the '98 Isaac frame on eBay. It's a size 54cm which is too small for me. However, I can't do it... They don't make Paramounts anymore. I'll build it up with Shimano Ultegra. Anyway, stay off rec.bicycles. Those guys are mean! Besides, they don't get you over there. We understand you............ Jay Tegeder "On the podium if the right people don't show up!" JT |
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As regards what's wrong with the old Miyata, well I love it but it's
just tattered, literally. You can't read the decals anymore and they don't make restoration ones. And actually the bike is pretty much small for me at 58cm. I might buy another if it was 60-62cm. As regards me looking almost normal: heck 3 weeks of having colds makes me look pretty scary and pasty in some of those pics, I think. No modeling future there! As regards RBR not getting me...some do, some don't. That was just Henry doing the ONE thing he does. Some a the kids over there think it's fun. It can be funny sometimes. Think of guys in a dirty pack on a windy day, snot flowing, yelling and giving each other shi...I mean crap. It's potty-talk all the time in the first grade and in bike racing. There are some nice, funny, smart guys over there occasionally. Some old pros like Carl Sundquist. Cartoonist Patrick OGrady. George Mount posted GREAT CLASSIC posts there a couple times. I just got some helpful info there from an Italian about the new/old Atala. Henry is about the only big problem and he's predictable. I have to repeat what I think is the best all-time thread at RBR. Some guys were arguing an eternal and common argument about whether Lemond was a bum for bridging up to Boyer at the end of the 1982 World's. Then suddenly up pops a post out of the blue from George Mount of all people (his first post at RBR basically) that says something like: "Hey guys, I was in the pack that day when Greg made his move and no one had any agreements and Jock was doomed so Greg took off. So enough of this lame talk." Then there was silence. Then came a post that said "Well, that kind of takes the fun out of that." THAT was just the best! Here's the link: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...om%26rnum%3D19 [ ] Mike P.S. How goes VOMIT? http://www.nordicskiracer.com/Training/2005/VOMIT.asp I had a cold for 3 weeks, then was training medium for 2 weeks, now I've had another cold for the past week. Rats! VOMIT sucks, man! No, I look forward to getting back into it. It's those snotty kids who keep finding their way back to the house. And I'm still in midst of several simultaneous insane deadlines. --JP |
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