Down to Monterey, up to San Ramon, back to San Jose…

Thursday,  April 3rd, I headed down to Monterey Bay, California.  Yes, home of world famous aquariums, and Monarch butterflies, but I was there to meet someone world famous in a different way–one of the members of http://www.bikeforums.net/. Yes, I was there to meet Dr.Deltron, aka known as Mark.  He is a bicycle paint extraordinary, and I was there to not only go for a ride on my bicycle, but to see his painting ability in person.  It’s impossible to accurately convey how beautiful the paint is on this frame, but rest assured, it’s beautiful!

Here’s a close up of the frame:

One of the most unusual plants I have ever seen, this is a Wheel Tree:

I had to tear myself away and head up to San Ramon, California. That’s where I was meeting up once again with a member I’d already met on the Tuesday–bigbossman, aka John.
He was going to re-wrap the handlebars of my Sachs, and wound up also putting on new brake hoods, and new cables all around.

Partially done…

John enjoying himself working on the Sachs. I had a very important date on Saturday, so I needed to get the Sachs as gorgeous as possible!