[CR] My 1983 Raleigh Competition on the Velo Cult Blog

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To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "AdventureCORPS" <adventurecorps@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:06:26 -0800
Subject: [CR] My 1983 Raleigh Competition on the Velo Cult Blog


Thanks to Sky, Tom, Anthony, and the rest of the Velo Cult team for their amazing service as San Diego County's premier bike shop which caters to everybody except the mainstream - which means we fit right in! Today they have featured two of my bikes, and their recent work on them, on their blog:

http://www.velocult.com/blog/post/raleigh_competition_rivendell_roadeo

Click on over to their always fascinating blog which is always VERY well illustrated with incredible photography. Today their blog features my 1983 Raleigh Competition, which Tom outfitted with a 3- Speed Fixed Wheel set-up, and my 2010 Rivendell Roadeo (Waterford built), on which Sky installed hammer Honjo fenders and Challenge Paris-Roubaix 700x29 tyres. They do superb work and are great people. And don't my bikes look as awesome as they ride??? (I'll be riding that Roadeo in a 300km brevet this Saturday, from Moorpark to Santa Barbara and back.)

(More on that Raleigh Competition in a later post once I do a full feature about it on my blog, after I have "finished" dialing in some of the set-up details. It has a very interesting history.)

Velo Cult is located in the South Park area of San Diego, just a bit south of University Avenue and west of the 805, in a really neat neighborhood with a great restaurant next door (Whistle Stop Bar) and a classic coffee shop (Rebecca's) on the corner. Velo Cult often show films or have other social events at their shop in the evenings,. They are a driving force behind the San Diego Tweed Ride and they also created the San Diego Bike Commuter online forum and the SDBikeCommuter.com Discount Program through which local merchants give discounts to customers who arrive by bicycle.

Related links: http://www.sdbikecommuter.com/ and http://www.sdbikecommuter.com/find_businesses/

- Chris Kostman
La Jolla, CA
http://www.XO-1.org
http://www.adventurecorps.com