My wife’s bikes are mostly flat bar road bikes. When we got back into cycling in the fall of 2013, she saw a magazine review for the not yet released 2014 Giant Thrive. We had a deposit on one before the first shipment ever arrived at the port. From there, I built her the ‘94 Bianchi Advantage for a birthday gift. Ground up, total renovation, and did the ‘06 Bianchi Boardwalk as a stablemate his to her’s. Most recently finished a commuter, flat-bar conversion for her in the 1994 Specialized Allez. Her Bianchi got all new everything, my Boardwalk was nothing but an bare, ugly gray frame. The Allez got all new parts and updates throughout on its neglected, but now amazingly perfect original finished frameset.
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