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I would concur, following Scott's sage advice is generally wise. Go for it.
10 months agoThank you, Suzanne. If you've followed our journals in the past, you know that we are more travelers than cyclists per se, we mosey along and stop where we like and poke around. Having bikes gives us the freedom to explore rural areas that other transport is going to fly through. We appreciate having you along!
10 months agoWhat an adventure, and on the perfect bikes. Sometimes everything just falls into place as if it were meant to be. I'll be eagerly following along and a bit envious.
10 months agoHi Janice. Yes, in Portland they used to have a monthly event in the summers called Sunday Parkways, and once a season Bike Friday would bring their wares up and set up a booth in a park, along with many other vendors and food carts. Maybe ten years ago now, we test rode their Silk line, with NuVinci hubs and Carbon belt drives. So we'd been jonesing for them ever since. It was just a coincidence that I saw the red one posted on Craigslist. These ones have Alfine hubs, apparently they changed over to those, although I believe they can make one with Rohloff as well. That we ended up with these two pristine bikes for a song is just pure, dumb luck, and we're very grateful for them. You two have a grand time in Spain, it looks like you have been so far. It's a beautiful country.
10 months agoCongratulations on your finds. It hadn't occurred to me that you could even get a BF with an internal hub and belt drive. Such luxury. Wishing you many interesting adventures on your new rides.
10 months agoScott Anderson has a photo of my bike in his latest journal entry, it's far better than any I have taken. We'll show them in their boxes for you, too, in an upcoming entry.
10 months agoLooking forward to photos of those bikes, and the details of how they will be packed for travel. ...Steve
10 months agoThose stories are so much funnier in the rear view mirror, aren't they? Thanks for following along, we'll leave a trail of, well, maybe not bread crumbs, but sticky rice and banana peels for you.
10 months agoGood job keeping mum, brother. It's good to get this journal off the ground. Now just to get ourSELVES off the ground!
10 months agoWe're pretty excited about our dream machines too! And as always we love trading plant and animal info with you.
10 months agoThis was a really pertinent comment for us today, Steve, as we just heard about an old friend that has died. Let's ride while we can!
10 months agoOMG, this struck so many notes.
“Let’s go to Saigon….OK”.
We had the incredibly good fortune to live there for a couple of years with our kids, many years ago. In the intervening years I don’t know how many times either Kirsten or I have said “ Let’s go to Saigon”, but the answer has always been something other than “OK”, and it usually ended with ‘maybe next year’. We’re not getting any younger as well, so it has to happen sometime.
And then you got to ‘internal gears and Gates belt drives’. More music to our ears!
We look forward to following your breadcrumb trail and it might just be the final incentive we need to follow along on a copy-cat tour.
(And you need to get Kirsten to share some stories of snakes wrapped around your handlebars and tail-less geckos in the kitchen sink. Always a good laugh!)
Oh, good. You’re finally public. It was hard to not say anything about this writing up our HAC group gathering!
10 months agoSounds like dream machines! Enjoy the ride!! I will be eagerly watching.
10 months ago
The Feeshko is to little shampoo bottles as Boof is to little bars of soap. The sanitized onion keepers are right up MY alley, though. I'm sure you two will have a blast on this trip.
10 months ago