Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => PBP => Topic started by: LittleWheelsandBig on 03 March, 2024, 12:49:33 am
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https://youtu.be/ulqHNxYEDNc is up.
Young Steve and I make a brief appearance about 21 minutes in. Several other familiar faces pop up. The Youth PBP arrivee is shown about three minutes from the end.
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Well....I was really smashing it at 10.20mins.......but it didn't last for the duration! lol
Parlez-vous Francais? Sadly not, but I always enjoy watching videos like these.
But it takes me so long to get through it, mainly because I keep pausing the stream when I get curious about a rider for some reason or other, grab their frame number and then go searching on the results page to see how they faired.
But here's a tale that made my day [and apologies if this is old news].
I spotted what looked like an older steel bike, at 13.24mins, managed [after multiple rewinds] to get his frame number [A067] and checked his time. The rider's name is Ben Schauland from Seattle Randonneurs....and WOW!!! what a great time.
So what is that bike? It looks like an older style conventional steel bike. After much rabbit-holing, it turns out that the bike Ben rode on PBP was a modified Trek road bike from some years back, stripped down and rebuilt by a chap called Steve Frey.
And here is a delightful short You-Tube video of Steve discussing his very basic empirical, rudimentary style of breathing new life into old frames. Mapp gas, blow torch, take me back. Love it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiJw0uifm8g
If you don't like this video, then sorry......you don't like bikes :-)
And how did Ben fair on PBP with this 'basic' bike?
Well.........he came home after 48hrs 42mins!
Respect to you Sir.
I thought it was a great little gem of a story.
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Top rabbit-holing. Lovely story :thumbsup:
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Thanks, LWAB. Brought tears to my eyes.
ETA I had a chuckle at the volunteer mechanic commenting "electronic gears, disc brakes - so many little things to go wrong. It wasn't like this four years ago".