Author: NLAdmin

I bought this bike, slightly used, in Denver in the early 90’s.  It got a lot of use!  It was one of the very early Specialized attempts at carbon.  The frame tubing was glued into the Aluminum lugs, something not done now.

At some point, I got into the Bike Friday thing, and Eileen took over this bike. When we moved to Wisconsin and discovered how hilly it is here, I converted it, at no small expense, to a triple.  I used the triple crank set from my old yellow Marin mountain bike, which made the gearing setup a “compact triple”, more or less.  The shifters were the original 600 series downtub shifters. I bought conversion hardware that allowed me to mount them as bar end shifters.

Eileen rode this bike in some tri races, on the 2007 GRABAAWR, and the 2007 Wright Stuff Century.  The very low gearing was loved.  The bar end shifters were not loved, at least by Eileen.

At some point, she decided that riding a hand-me-down bike was no longer acceptable, and bought a new Specialized Roubaix.  I wanted to keep this, but really couldn’t justify it.  I’d sold my last bike Friday, I was riding a nice all carbon Specialized Roubaix.  We sold it to a “good home”.  Despite dire warnings about the short life span of glued lugs, this frame never softened up or got creaky.  I always thought it was a great looking bike, what with the black carbon weave showing, and the yellow trim. I wish I still had it.

(click here to see the photos used in the Craigslist ad to sell this bike)

Friend, family, neighbors – all were there for this gala event:

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We met up with Lawrence, Cathy, Pabo, and Diego in Perrot St. Park.  They are on vacation from El Salvador, where Lawrence is stationed with the State Department, and USAID.  Lawrence is deathly ill, worst cough ever.  Except for Pablo.  His is even more awful.  The weather is good, our riding is curtailed.  Lawrence has a new bike, a nice Fuji Touring (steel frame).

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