I haven’t met Don Walker in person…
Tony was doing all the customer-facing stuff when I bought from them. My wife also has a Pereira touring bike from right before the Tony/Ira merger. He was great to work with on her bike, was a little scattered on details with mine but we got the spec sheet sorted out before parts were ordered and the bike turned out great.
Sure, there’s sometimes a little of the precious Portland “put a bird on it” vibe, but my impression is that they both know their way around a bike well enough that good design wins out.
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Yeah, I know that those two definitely know how to make a bike, though there were some stories my wife told about what showed up before paint, as she worked in the fancy paint shop back in 2008 or something. She definitely had opinions about who was a good framebuilder (DeSalvo) and who was a hack (most of the rest of them) after that. She didn’t like Tony’s personality but his frames were fine.
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I met Don Walker in person once for about a minute and that’s all I needed to confirm he is a dickhead. I greeted him with some friendly small chat and he was just rude off the bat. I have my name tag on backwards so people don’t know where I work and he gets all uppity and reaches for it. Back off old man, your just another bike industry loser like me with stupid booth at a stupid bike trade show.
The track bike he had on display was badass though and that’s all I really wanted to tell him.
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First ride with the Old Man Mountain rear rack, which I’m pretty happy with. Really loving the combination of panniers and modern geo w/ suspension and dropper for rodeo terrain where the extra capacity matters.
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LoL just like that, panniers are cool again.
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Panniers were always cool!
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Why do you have a food waste container on the front of your bike?
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oh- you got the thing. how is it?
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Haven’t ridden it but for some circles in a parking lot. Seems maybe kinda noisy. Gonna shove a raincoat in there to calm it down.
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Yeah I also really want to know how it is!
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Yes but HOW IS IT
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It’s a box that hangs on your handlebars that you put stuff in. The mounting hardware is very nice and the lid is clever. It’s smaller than I was expecting but that’s probably for the best. I tend to be a hoarder on wheels lol. I’m hopefully going on a ride tomorrow so I’ll report back after that.
Oh, and you have to supply your own computer mount thing and it can’t be the normal kind that rubberbands to your bars.
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Oh I’ve used one of these for a bit this summer and did a gravel race thing with it. My only complaint is that the lid rattles a bit on rough terrain, haven’t devised a good way to silence that (also guess it hasn’t been annoying enough for me to put that much effort into it).
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oh man you ended up with one of my favorite frames of all time.
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How is that frame?
last of the great protour supersteel renaissance
along with the Cervelo Superprodigy, some Lemonds, and some repainted Pegorettis
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