Rim Brake Perfection, lets fan boy yours..

[merckxman]

Would love to have a Singer, looks exceptional.

Originally Posted by El Chaba

This one rides so nicely….

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Originally Posted by Xrslug

Agree — love that silvery blue. One of my favorite colors. I see this RS frame has different head tube lugs from the norm. Do you know what the history is behind that? Special edition of some kind?

Thanks for the nice comments. The RS wasn’t made for me as I noted so I don’t have its full history. It was made for a Paceliner though and maybe they see this and chime in. Richie himself often peruses the comments here so he may jump in as well. Those lugs are known as Nuovo Richie lugs and he describes as “ornate without being frou-frou”. They’re the same ones that he used on the bike he made for Craig Gaulzetti (the Jerk) and has been bought and sold here a few times. I don’t know if the original customer selected them or in the 2008-ish timeframe they were part of an anniversary run. This bike was originally traditional red and white. Along the way it was refurbished and as I understand it repainted by Tom Kellogg. But take all of the aforementioned as hearsay as I’ve not spent too much time chasing down facts but just built it up and rode it like I stole it….

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Love that Bianchi! I actually rode the orange Merckx in my first D2R2 in 2006. I used to live out in W MA not far from Deerfield and figured I’d give it a whirl after some friends did the really really first one in 2005. My one concession, thinking how bad could it be, was a 34/50 front ring setup on a compact crank. 12/27 in the back on 25c tires. I ran the 100k that year as a toe in the water and by some miracle had no flats. Rode with a guy I met on here and he came up from NJ and stayed at my house. We turned out to be very compatible speed wise and as it was quite cool that year we didn’t linger at the stops to keep our temps up. I think we roared through in about 4:40 total time per our RUSA rando card they used back then. In another blast from the past, I think that was the year the MaryAnn stayed with us at my house. Some may remember her from Serotta forum days. She not too long after went to AUS and in time married Darrell Llewellyn McCulloch (Dazza) who rim brake aficionados will know as the builder of Llewellyn frames. The six degrees of separation on the Serotta/Paceline forum. Winter 2007 I figured I needed more tire and more gears to do the 180k and hence I cobbled that EBay Ridley CX frame together with parts lying around at the time. Nice thing about it is as tires have increased in volume it has the room to accept them. As shown it’s on RH 38s.

Originally Posted by AngryScientist

Nice ones Bittersweet!

14 D2R2's on one bike is also quite impressive.

The early days at Deerfield were really something to see. Somewhat of a rim brake freak show with all types of cobbled together contraptions to get the job done. My how things have changed outside the big tent!

This was my original Deerfield sled.