View Single Post
Old 08-22-13, 05:17 PM
  #2931  
rholland1951
Senior Member
 
rholland1951's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 3,176
Mentioned: 15 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 534 Post(s)
Liked 1,749 Times in 890 Posts
Originally Posted by jimmuller
Rod, how do you know those folks were septuagenarian and octogenarian? Appearances can be deceiving, you know. To look at me you'd think I was only, maybe 25. Honest. Really.

I managed to run an errand over to Watertown today. Took this bad boy:



First ride after building those wheels, vintage Fiamme rims and high-flange Normandy hubs. I have to get some better tires for it.
True, they could have been 20-something meth addicts... Hence the hedge-word "apparent". My sexagenarian self has reached the age where "old" really means "older than me"...

That's a beautiful bike, Jim.

rod
rholland1951 is online now