Eroica alternate dinner at the Palazzo degli Eroi - who's in?
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Eroica alternate dinner at the Palazzo degli Eroi - who's in?
It is a well known SoCal fact that @Classtime makes great homemade guacamole, salsa, and corn tortillas. Savor this:
Along with some Santa Maria tri-tip and possibly other meats, cerveza, vino, and no endless tables of people...a smaller, more intimiate setting. The Bridge Street Inn in Cambria will be the location. No set time, come and go as you please, bring a little sumpin' sumpin' if you will.
Trying to get a number so we can get the right amount of food, you can reply here or PM for a headcount.
Along with some Santa Maria tri-tip and possibly other meats, cerveza, vino, and no endless tables of people...a smaller, more intimiate setting. The Bridge Street Inn in Cambria will be the location. No set time, come and go as you please, bring a little sumpin' sumpin' if you will.
Trying to get a number so we can get the right amount of food, you can reply here or PM for a headcount.
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I'm staying at a nearby airbnb house with 3 other riders plus our spouses so we'll be having our Saturday dinner over there. However, I would love to experience the ambiente di Palazzo and plan to show up along with those riders for snacking and socializing and will bring something to share if I do. Don't plan on us eating a full meal there though.
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Almost three years later, I recommend getting a travel bike!
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Rene Herse made a demountable, same idea.
Made well before the 1987 technology cutoff
But I'm pimping travel bikes to my non-PNW friends as a way to more easily participate in TdMIL, Mystery Tours, Arizona Spring Trainings, and future mini-group rides in the future.
Made well before the 1987 technology cutoff
But I'm pimping travel bikes to my non-PNW friends as a way to more easily participate in TdMIL, Mystery Tours, Arizona Spring Trainings, and future mini-group rides in the future.
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Or you can build your own.
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the Demontable is interesting but it's heavy as the tube "plugs" are pretty thick. Bill Stevenson built at least 2 bikes like that as well
the Ritchey Breakaway couplers are available as a kit. Not sure if they could be back fit into an existing bike - the seat lug would be a problem.
But visually you'd never notice. S&S couplers are visually obvious.
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the Ritchey Breakaway couplers are available as a kit. Not sure if they could be back fit into an existing bike - the seat lug would be a problem.
But visually you'd never notice. S&S couplers are visually obvious.
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You could go with a Ritchey mount at the seat tube / top tube intersection and then a z-coupler on the down tube, available via Paragon Machine Works.
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the Demontable is interesting but it's heavy as the tube "plugs" are pretty thick. Bill Stevenson built at least 2 bikes like that as well
the Ritchey Breakaway couplers are available as a kit. Not sure if they could be back fit into an existing bike - the seat lug would be a problem.
But visually you'd never notice. S&S couplers are visually obvious.
/markp
the Ritchey Breakaway couplers are available as a kit. Not sure if they could be back fit into an existing bike - the seat lug would be a problem.
But visually you'd never notice. S&S couplers are visually obvious.
/markp
My travel bike is a Ritchey CX Breakaway, which most people don't notice, as you stated. The kit is around $250, but it doesn't make any sense to retrofit a bike with that. The S&S coupler kit makes it fairly easy to retrofit a steel frame, but it's 3X the price for their couplers vs Ritchey.
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All of my bikes are travel bikes, courtesy of EVOC.
These days the airlines don't charge any more for an EVOC style bag (or similar carry case) than they do for any other suitcase under 50 pounds.
It fits easily across the back seat of a standard size sedan or in the back of an SUV.
I can disassemble & pack/unpack and assemble in about ten minutes without having to view a video or curse at the bike.
TSA inspectors unzip one side, look inside and zip it back up without unpacking stuff.
I've used mine literally dozens of times domestically without any damage to a bike.
So, there's that.
These days the airlines don't charge any more for an EVOC style bag (or similar carry case) than they do for any other suitcase under 50 pounds.
It fits easily across the back seat of a standard size sedan or in the back of an SUV.
I can disassemble & pack/unpack and assemble in about ten minutes without having to view a video or curse at the bike.
TSA inspectors unzip one side, look inside and zip it back up without unpacking stuff.
I've used mine literally dozens of times domestically without any damage to a bike.
So, there's that.
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I've been tempted to try to fit a bike with rinko bits in a standard suitcase. Anyone here tried that?
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Here's a closeup of the Herse downtube connection. I have successfully machined a copy the two mating halves with the tooth, but I don't have a picture here.
I still don't know if the originals are completely machined from round rod stock and then brazed in, or if Herse brazed a piece of keystock in the bottom half and cut/brazed-in walls for a notch in the top half. Mine are completely machined from round stock so they are heavy, but I will try to hollow them out a little bit on the lathe before I install them on a frame (My Trek??)
The top tube is just a slip-joint, with a seat binder bolt or two. Easy, that part.
All of my bikes are travel bikes, courtesy of EVOC.
These days the airlines don't charge any more for an EVOC style bag (or similar carry case) than they do for any other suitcase under 50 pounds.
It fits easily across the back seat of a standard size sedan or in the back of an SUV.
I can disassemble & pack/unpack and assemble in about ten minutes without having to view a video or curse at the bike.
TSA inspectors unzip one side, look inside and zip it back up without unpacking stuff.
I've used mine literally dozens of times domestically without any damage to a bike.
So, there's that.
These days the airlines don't charge any more for an EVOC style bag (or similar carry case) than they do for any other suitcase under 50 pounds.
It fits easily across the back seat of a standard size sedan or in the back of an SUV.
I can disassemble & pack/unpack and assemble in about ten minutes without having to view a video or curse at the bike.
TSA inspectors unzip one side, look inside and zip it back up without unpacking stuff.
I've used mine literally dozens of times domestically without any damage to a bike.
So, there's that.
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You could go with a Ritchey mount at the seat tube / top tube intersection and then a z-coupler on the down tube, available via Paragon Machine Works.
I saw them in person at NAHBS (the Santana tandem booth) and they were pretty impressive. In my opinion as a competent machinist, I didn't think they'd fall apart, and they aren't so heavy. Designing a travel bike, I guess I'd use one of these in the downtube and then just do a slip joint for the top tube, like Herse did.
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Neat! I did not know you could buy them retail. That's great! @gugie was telling me that S&S would only sell to framebuilders who had insurance of some sort, so if the average Joe can get ahold of these Z-couplers, why not try one out? Certainly easier and lighter weight than messing around with the Herse design. Only trouble is that their smallest size is oversized 1-1/4". Could braze in a shim though.
I saw them in person at NAHBS (the Santana tandem booth) and they were pretty impressive. In my opinion as a competent machinist, I didn't think they'd fall apart, and they aren't so heavy. Designing a travel bike, I guess I'd use one of these in the downtube and then just do a slip joint for the top tube, like Herse did.
I saw them in person at NAHBS (the Santana tandem booth) and they were pretty impressive. In my opinion as a competent machinist, I didn't think they'd fall apart, and they aren't so heavy. Designing a travel bike, I guess I'd use one of these in the downtube and then just do a slip joint for the top tube, like Herse did.
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Twice I've flown back east on Delta a couple of times with a Trico case. With a bike in it it's heavy and oversized. As I recall it was $50 each way on the plane. Once you add up the plane tickets, food, hotels, train tix, etc., it wasn't a significant amount for the trip. Bike touring, even by credit card is a pretty inexpensive vacation. Now that I have my Ritchey Breakaway, it goes on the plane as a standard bag. I know that it technically is a bit too big, but I haven't yet had an airline charge me an oversize fee. It's pretty easy to keep the bike bag under 50 pounds.
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I am a serial frame- and component-breaker though. I want a downtube connection that is more robust in torsion!
Plus, I am a sucker for cool CNC-machined things. Knowing the time and effort (and the number of failed attempts) it would take me to setup a machine to do one of those couplers, I would totally pay $250 for one.
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