Well as some people know my New Years resolution was to ride my bike to work at least once this year.Well with that goal in mind I set out to buy a road bike.
I was looking for a 80′s style road bike under the assumption that it would be cheaper. Which it is. I found a 1 man shop named HBBikeShop.com. If your in the LA/OC Area I strongly recommend checking his shop out. He has tons to offer. At least 200 bikes were waiting for me as I pulled up. 1 after another after another, I was able to test ride bikes until the sun went down. Great guy, and had a great range of bikes, in all sorts of price ranges. I settled on an old 57cm Motiv Road bike, that I enjoyed riding the most of the several bikes I had the chance to test drive. I got the bike home safe and sound on the back of my very low Rx7.
The next day, Saturday Leiren and I wanted to go for a ride along the strand. We through both bikes on the back of my car. Driving down to the beach I see a car pass me and I hear a nice grinding noise. I thought to myself “Why is that car driving with that loud grinding noise,” as i looked in my rear view, and notice my bike rack had folded and had been dragging for a good 50-100 feet. Pull over and I find that both wheels on my bike are ground about halfway through the rim.
So I decided to rebuild my bike. Started to sand it down. I plan on repainting it, and replacing the rims for now. In the future I might change some other stuff but lets get this thing ridable first. Look forward to some updates on the status. I should be priming and painting hopefully when this rain is done.
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