Thanks. I sometimes sniffle a few tears of nostalgia for the 58 cm blue Ram that I sold a few years ago. Damned nice bike, but for me, with 2 Road customs, it fell between my very arbitrary and just as strictly delimited bike categories. I wanted something either more "roadie" or more "gravel", and if gravel, then it had to take 50 mm tires at a minimum, for our local river sand.
I built mine as an all rounder road-biased rider, with 35 mm (32 actual) Kojaks, later replaced with the oh! so much much more nice 29 mm Parigi Roubaix (this was before Compass had its current full selection of sizes). Stan's made the P-R's possible in goatheadland. Close-ish ratio "compact" (nudge nudge, wink wink) "compact" 52/38 double, Dura Ace 7410, the most beautiful crank ever made, IMO, with home-brew 16-26 or somesuch 9 speed, shifted by Silvers on the downtube, for ~ 88 down to a stump pulling 40 gear inches. Ubercool 7410 Dura Ace spds, Nitto bar and stem, Flite on Iforget seatpost, SP hub in front, old Ultegra rear -- I think it was an 8 speed-era Ultegra hub.
Nice, but not as nice as my custom Roads!
FWIW (and this is adressed to all y'all): If, when Bumping, you use Forward instead of Reply, the new message keeps the photos attached. I learned this the hard way.