Saturday, April 23, 2011

Eddie's Gem

When Eddie Hauswurz got his Masi cross bike, he knew it was going to be artistic as well as functional. Leather bar tape, brown suede saddle, golden champagne paint job...a perfect setup for a pair of wood rims.

Eddie wearing his best vintage sweater and wool knickers.

He decided on a pair of DT 240 hubs and we built a set of Elegant rims using butted 14 gauge spokes. My daughter, Kristina, laced them up and I did the finish tension and truing. Eddie glued on Challenge 27mm Paris-Roubaix tubulars. Ahhh, the ride of royalty!

Take a look, isn't this a knockout rig?
A symphony of compatible colors.

3 comments:

blackmountaincycles said...

Great looking bike. Beautiful looking wheels. Keep posting pictures of wheels like that and I'm going to have to contact you.

Mike

Ric Hjertberg said...

Mike, What's keeping you? :-)

biking blog said...

you did a great job on that bike! i've been thinking about how to restore mine, this gives me some good ideas