New Bike Day!

[Rusty Click]

FEDX dropped off a pre-RAGBRAI package for me today.  I carefully unwrapped, assembled, and took some pics.

Cant talk now, I gotta go ride!

[Lester Lammers]

Nice! Don't be late for dinner.

[Joe Bernard]

Holy crap that's pretty.

[Deacon Patrick]

Wow! May it never again be so shiny!

With abandon,
Patrick

[WETH]

Beautiful! Enjoy!

[Patrick Moore]

Lovely.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Rusty Click <clic...@gmail.com> wrote:

FEDX dropped off a pre-RAGBRAI package for me today.  I carefully unwrapped, assembled, and took some pics.

Cant talk now, I gotta go ride!

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[SeanMac]

Wow!  Beautiful bike, Rusty.  Enjoy it!  I sure hope that your ride put a bike smile on your face!

Sean

[Paul Choi]

That is beautiful. Makes me want to get one!

[Eamon Nordquist]

Ditto!

[Kainalu V.]

Nice.
Which rim is that? Those Velocity sidewalls are awesomely tall, you'll get a lot of wear outta those.
Enjoy
-Kai
BKNY

[iamkeith]

Ooohh, those plug-in dropouts! I thought they were going to be the tig welded breezer style, but this is SO much nicer!

[Dale Click]

Kai, those are Cliffhangers. Will suggested them as opposed to the Atlas I was interested in. I really like the look of those tall sidewalls too!

Rusty
Pgh, PA

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[Eamon Nordquist]

That's a Waterford made Atlantis, right? Looks like a 62, based on the 700c wheels and single top tube. I'd order that same bike today, if I had the money! Nuthin' to dislike on that bike, and lots to love.

Eamon

Seattle

[Dale Click]

Good eye Eamon, it is a 62 Waterford Atlantis.  Took a little over 7 months to get the box on my front porch, but it was worth the wait.  As far as the money, my wife told me to quit obsessing over it and just order it.  I think she wants me to take more trips, out on the bike and out of her hair.  Ha!  I win!

[lambbo]

Love the clean handlebars due to down-tubes!

[Kainalu V.]

Will gave you good advice, the cliffhangers are fantastic, so very tough. Are you going/have you gone tubeless? I have some cliffhangers set up tubeless with 60mm Schwalbe Big Ones (liteskin, not "tubeless easy" but mount readily with the cliffhangers). Flats are over, and speed and comfort are phenomenal.

[Dave Grossman]

That sucker is awesome!

I want to get Cliffhangers for my next set of wheels for the Hunq.  I have Atlas rims now and while I like them the idea of going tubeless on the Hunq is appealing.  I have those Big Ones on my Jones and I love them! 

[Dale Click]

“Tubeless”, has just been one of those things buzzing around the outer edges of the biking part of my brain. I just don’t know enough about it, to know if I’d like to try it. One reason for that may be that I’ve always run the nearly flat proof Schwalbe Marathons on the Hillborne. I’ll have to pay more attention to that buzzing…

RustyC
Pgh,PA

> On Jul 10, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Kainalu V. <kaivi...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Will gave you good advice, the cliffhangers are fantastic, so very tough. Are you going/have you gone tubeless? I have some cliffhangers set up tubeless with 60mm Schwalbe Big Ones (liteskin, not "tubeless easy" but mount readily with the cliffhangers). Flats are over, and speed and comfort are phenomenal.
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[Tom Wyland]

Rusty, I found this video to be pretty informative regarding switching to tubeless.  

https://www.thefitrv.com/fitness-tips/were-going-tubeless-on-our-road-bikes-watch-the-whole-thing/

I still don't have any idea why a skinny-tired bike would be a tubeless candidate, though (talking about the Fit RV folks)

Tom (and not tubeless)

[Deacon Patrick]

Rusty, I was in much the same boat as you, so I tried Orange Sealant in my tubes (not going full boar tubeless) to get an idea of the effectiveness of the flat protection. I still flatted, and had a whole lotta mess to deal with. My conclusion for me is that the fussiness of sealant exceeds the fussiness of any benifit I experienced.

With abandon,
Patrick

[Joe Bernard]

I disagree, my Crust has tubeless with Orange Seal. A few weeks ago the rear generated the dreaded 'air escaping' sound for 5 seconds, then stopped and on I went. I put a little more air in when I got home and that was it. Tubeless rocks.

[RichS]

Congratulations! Pretty bike in a pretty setting. The red Thin Gripsters are a nice touch.

Best,

Richard

[Kainalu V.]

Yes, for every "my garage is covered in latex!" story, there's a few happy stories that often go untold. That said, I wouldn't go tubeless with pizza cutter tires, but with your clearances that's not likely to be a consideration.
-Kai
BKNY

[Justin, Oakland]

Since adding tubeless sealant to my tunes I have had zero flats. Off road, rock gardens, on road, East Oakland streets, nothing. On a ride this weekend someone’s rear tire went low and he just pumped it back up to pressure and it held just fine. Very little hassle. A single anecdote does not data make nor is the plural of anecdotes data.

-Justin

[Belopsky]

I've bottomed out the tire when riding tubeless on my Chameleon on the trails and nothing popped as there was nothing to pop.

Tubeless is great.

I've yet to puncture the tire and have to seal ..

[DarinM]

I'll echo Justin's experience. No flats since putting Stan's in my tubes. I have used Schwalbe Thunder Burts Lightskin and Compass RTP's. This includes a ~280mi, mostly forest road camping trip a couple weeks ago. I will say that it has clogged a valve core which made pumping with an HP-X kind of a pain, but not impossible. I think it's worth it if all I have to replace is valve cores every two months or so.

I've only had one puncture (it sealed) where I could hear air escaping but maybe there have been other would be flats, too.

Darin

[Pondero]

Wonderful, Rusty, nice going. It has a perfect classic look. Enjoy!

Chris Johnson
Sanger, Texas

[Robert F. Harrison]

Nice! Oh how I wish I could join you and see that bike! Next year. Sigh.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 9:03 AM Rusty Click <clic...@gmail.com> wrote:

FEDX dropped off a pre-RAGBRAI package for me today.  I carefully unwrapped, assembled, and took some pics.

Cant talk now, I gotta go ride!

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