[BHV] feeling surly

[Paul Kingsbury]

Glad you like it, Bill

See ? It wasn't just a sales pitch when I said my Trucker is probably  
my favorite bike :-)

PK

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On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:53 AM, William Lodico <wlodico at stny.rr.com>  
wrote:

> It's the middle of winter.  It gets light late and dark early.  My  
> friends are showing up on new bikes with fat tires and sometimes  
> fenders.
>
> So I went over to Kingsbury's Cyclery and ordered me one of these:
>
> Complete Bikes | Long Haul Trucker Complete
>
> Slack angles, low bottom bracket, double-butted steel, big tires,  
> room for fenders.  Perfect for winter riding and in-season dirt road  
> rambling.
>
> I added a few extras:  fenders and Tiagra STI levers, which seem to  
> work perfectly with the 9-speed triple chainring super-low granny  
> set up. There's plenty of room under the fenders for my studded  
> Nokians, if and when I decide to go out on the ice.
>
> So: Paul added bike and extras to his Tuesday parts order.  It  
> arrived Friday and Sloane put it together.  Saturday morning Sloane  
> had me on the trainer to tune in the fit.   He must have got it just  
> about right.  I brought the necessary tools,  but I didn't have to  
> tweak it a bit on our 40 mile Wilson Farms ride.  I did get a little  
> sore from so much happy grinning.  Riding a bike, especially a new  
> one, on a sunny afternoon is inherently fun; but I'll try to assume  
> a surlier expression in the future.
>
> The bike is very comfortable, precise and predictable in its  
> handling, and no-hands steady  -- all those things that a classic  
> steel road tourer is supposed to be.  The beefy "loaded tourer"  
> wheels and the 700-37 tires push the weight up a bit, but I think  
> otherwise the weight penalty isn't more than a pound or so over a  
> top quality lugged steel racing frame/fork.   It's welded, not  
> lugged, so it's nowhere near as elegant as Mark's Rivendell.  And it  
> misses out completely on the high tech titanium glamour of Blaine's  
> Moots or Rick's Seven.  But it's still really, really cool and lots  
> of fun to ride.
>
> The bike was dandy on Saturday's paved road winter ride.  I'm really  
> looking forward to our summertime dirt road explorations.
>
> Bill Lodico
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