Saw this bad boy today

[BilletHead]

                Well I just got a text from @curtisce,

  He climbed Loveland pass today.

[curtisce]

23 hours ago, BilletHead said:

                    We need to hear from @curtisce. Thay guy is a rider. Show us your bike Curt!  Tell us where you have been with it. 

Too long a thread to comment much. Best advice just keep pedaling 

[BilletHead]

2 minutes ago, curtisce said:

Too long a thread to comment much. Best advice just keep pedaling 

                 I'm telling you all he is sandbagging on us!

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, luckycraft said:

Bought this bad boy 2 weeks ago from A&B.   Second hand but looks new.   And got to support local business.   The girl couldn’t be happier

I sold and fixed hundreds of bikes.  Best job ever is selling or fixing a bike for a little kid.  They look at you like Santa.  

[luckycraft]

27 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

                Well I just got a text from @curtisce,

  He climbed Loveland pass today.

Hardly recognize him without waders on!

[BilletHead]

4 minutes ago, luckycraft said:

Hardly recognize him without waders on!

Ain't that the truth! Or a fishing rod 😀.

[ColdWaterFshr]

1 hour ago, luckycraft said:

Bought this bad boy 2 weeks ago from A&B.   Second hand but looks new.   And got to support local business.   The girl couldn’t be happier

My brother in-law is one of the managers there on South National  What a great shop and amazing to see from where they've come

I used to live directly above the old A&B on Walnut in Springfield.  Jesse and Naomi Tate, good folks - $90 per month rent, utilities included, and I was perpetually in arrears . . and when I finally scraped up enough dough to make payment, delivering it in person,  this almost always lead to a lecture of them trying to recruit me into their side business of selling Amway.  🤪

Anyway, they had fixed that loft up pretty posh except for the lack of AC, but Naomi wasn't cool with the downtown Springfield ghetto vibe at the time, so they put it up for rent to some biker punks and workers from the shop. We ended up with a sweet party pad.  Keggers on the roof of the bike shop, though we had constant break ins and problems with the wino's in the alley behind the shop.

Good times wrenching on our bikes, getting the latest components at cost, competing in some of the early Mountain Bike races at Ritter Springs and Busiek.  I owned several top notch bikes and one of which I still have.  mash-mash of components, Suntour XC Pro groupo, some Deore XT.  Miss my old road bikes though.  Remember my Shimano 105 Cannondale that I took up to 59 mph on that down-hill into Ponca in Arkansas on a tour, no helmet.  A buddy at the shop had a beautiful Tomasini italian bike with all Campagnolo C-record stuff - was beautiful.

[Bushbeater]

I still have my road bike, a Motobecane I bought at A&B in 72. It's still ready to ride. Had the tubular type tires till about 10 years age when I finally switched to conventional. We used to ride the hostel trail and do 100 to 150 mile trips. Wife has a nice Trek, she went to South Dakota a couple years back and did a week long trip on the Mickelson trail thru the black hills.

[Bushbeater]

Probably not A&B, somewhere on Manchester Rd. in Kirkwood or just west of there.

[ColdWaterFshr]

10 minutes ago, Bushbeater said:

I still have my road bike, a Motobecane I bought at A&B in 72. It's still ready to ride. Had the tubular type tires till about 10 years age when I finally switched to conventional. We used to ride the hostel trail and do 100 to 150 mile trips. Wife has a nice Trek, she went to South Dakota a couple years back and did a week long trip on the Mickelson trail thru the black hills.

yeah, the old sew-ups that you had to glue..  too much braking and the heat would melt the glue