Thursday, October 15, 2009

1990 Bridgestone RB-1


This bike was my sister's 1st road bike. When mountain biking started to pick up in popularity the bike was not being used much at all. I offered to take it off her hands in exchange for a personal computer. Back then I was riding my Tommasini SLX, then my Eddy Merckx Ti. This bike just hung in my garage for the longest time or was lent out to friends wanting to try out road biking.

I decided it was time to dust it off, upgrade it and bring back into action. The Ultegra STI components lying around in the garage that were previously on the Eddy Merckx found their way on to the RB-1. Initially I was going to put on some downtube shifters on but decided to go STI.

Now the RB-1 has a new purpose in life...to be ridden.


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