fun with my family on Mount Rainier…
just having fun with my cousin, brother and his girlfriend over the weekend ๐
-peter
just having fun with my cousin, brother and his girlfriend over the weekend ๐
-peter
Sadly a car is becoming more and more important as my current lease comes to an end, so I’ve decided to have a great divestment of resources ๐ As you’ve seen in previous posts the bike is a custom built Carl Strong Columbus Foco Road Racing steel frame with a paint matched ENVE 1.0 fork…
well i finally broke down and bought the saddle i’ve always lusted after, a slick Black Brooks Swallow, and it looks damn fine on the Trek 950 Singletrack if i do say so myself ๐ other parts are starting to trickle in, with the snow pounding us this week the delivery’s have been sketchy at…
so, it seems like this is a constant in my life, something to complain about right? ๐ but the majority of the components for the Trek 950’s wheelset are in the mail: some Velo Orange Diagonale 650b rims (36h as usual), Sapim double butted (14[2.0]/15[1.8]/14) spokes from Lee Kilpatrick (a great guy and always cuts…
so, what’s the old adage? two in the shed isn’t worth one on the road? ๐ yeah, well… i’ve got another in the shed haha the latest bike to grace my over encumbered bike racks is an early 2000’s (2000 i think due to the paint, Silver Cloud) Klein Quantum Race. The bike is a…
sooo, that whole Soma Buena Vista mixte thing? um… yeah… just kinda shifted ๐ it became a much cooler Kogswell P/R (Porteur/Randonneur), thankfully all of the parts (excluding brakes) were a straight swap. right now it’s kitted out as such (front to back): Minoura King Carrier Front Basket/Rack Large, 2x Schmidt E6 dynamo headlights, Velo…
so it seems that i have a mixte build-up in the works, someday i’ll get back to the pre-war schwinn i swear! anyhow, back to the subject at hand, a mixte build, what’s a mixte you ask? well the late Sheldon Brown explains it as such, A style ofรย lady’sรย frame in which the “top tube” consists…